> Succinctness, functionality and popularity of the language are now much more important factors.

No. I would argue that popularity per se is irrelevant: if there are a billion examples of crap code, the LLMs learn crap code. conversely know only 250 documents can poison an LLM independent if model size. [Cite anthropic paper here].

The most important thing is conserve context. Succinctness is not really what you want because most context is burned on thinking and tool calls (I think) and not codegen.

Here is what I think is not important: strong typing, it requires a tool call anyways to fetch the type.

Here is what I think is important:

- fewer footguns - great testing (and great testing examples) - strong language conventions (local indicators for types, argument order conventions, etc) - no weird shit like __init__.py that could do literally anything invisible to the standard code flow