January 2026 might be the month of langs created to be used by AI. Usually the chief concern is saving on tokens, prompted by context window anxiety. (This completely disregards the fact that agents thrash the context window by doing wrong things, then attempting to fix them; or by reading unrelated stuff; or by calling unhelpful tools; etc)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46450217 Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans (1 Jan 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571166 Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language (11 Jan 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46583581 Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language (12 Jan 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684958 Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs (19 Jan 2026)

See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582728 Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - where someone said "Someone has made a programming language called Sui, which is said to be designed for LLMs." https://github.com/TakatoHonda/sui-lang

And many other threads I didn't find right now

> Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans

Interesting take, because I think precisely the opposite. Coding agents let us produce a lot of code, code that we need to read and review. That means we need languages optimized for code generation by AI, and code review by humans.