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I'm a programmer, and I've heard many programmers advocate for using "AI". I surround myself with those that reject it (primarily for ethical reasons), but the ones at my last job seemed to like it.
Anyway, the whole industry has actually been built on vibes for at least a generation. C is bad. JS is worse. We have better languages that had better tooling and better semantics since before either of those were invented, but they were ignored in order to build an edifice to Capital on sand. Since then, the actual computer scientists (that study that branch of mathematics) have made much better languages and done studies to provide evidence they are easier to learn and produce a lower fault rate. That has been consistently ignored.
Adopting "AI" is just another step before the whole industry collapses, and we restart on better foundations and salvage what is absolutely necessary.
I don't know what the next foundation actually is, or how stable it can even be when it's built on this von Neumann trash instead of a proper Harvard Architecture. /s (I hope the foundation is related to GRTT or QTT.)
What are some examples of those better languages that have been created by scientists? I might look into it learning one if they are that superior.
Define better.
There are hundreds of languages that improve things. Kotlin for example was an improvement over Java while Java was stuck in the perpetual hell that was Java 8. Now it itself is pretty stuck.
For C, there is D, for Java you have Kotlin, Groovy, C#, and dozens of others. For JS there's TypeScript. For CSS there is SCSS and dozens of other *CSS variants. Rust and Go (and again hundreds of others) try to replace C/C++.
The ones I listed here are somewhat well-known and some of them are used by a lot of people. But there are hundreds more, some do really cool, creative stuff, but they are also obscure and are lacking any kind of community and libraries, which makes them worse for practical use.
And back then you had stuff like Oberon/Component Pascal, Smalltalk, and many other good languages.
Just check out the list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages
But programming languages aren't chosen for how cool the language is, but mainly for how likely it is to find people who can use them and how much resources are available. Popularity trumps language design.
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