Comment by piskov 14 hours ago
Genuine question: why js?
Why not something like c#: native, fast, crossplatform, strongly-typed, great tooling, supports both scripting (ie single file-based) and compiled to a binary with no dependency whatsoever (nativeAOT), great errors and error stacks, list goes on.
All great for AI to recover during its iterations of generating something useful.
Genuinely perplexed.
Ahahahahhahahahahhahahahaahaha. Please tell me this is tongue-in-cheek and just more subtle than I give HN credit for. Please.
Not all devs, not even most, but I certainly think this
So, everyone who can hack some JS is now a developer? The '100x' claim is obviously exaggerated. C# is certainly one of the most used programming languages there is.
You can run also C# code very quickly, but have the option (but not the need) to AOT compile it. I would say the only real edge JS has is the ability to run natively in the browser. It was built for that purpose, and in my opinion, that is where it should have stayed.
Same reason AIs also use Python and DBMSes offer JS or Py UDFs easily, interpreted languages take no build time and are more portable. JS is also very popular.
Might also be a context window thing. Idk how much boilerplate C# has, but others like Java spam it.
You could make a better argument for Go (compiles to native for multiple targets, zero actual dependencies (no need for a platform or virtual machine on the target)
C# no longer requires .net installed or bundled inside exe.
Like I’ve said: NativeAOT
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...
Go is the most portable compiled language out there and makes a lot of compromises with the interpreted lang world. But it's got its own issues.
>zero actual dependencies
on Linux only with CGO_ENABLED=0 and good luck using some non web related 3rd party module which can be used with CGO disabled.
AI are good at JS because basically there is a ton of JS code available publicly without usage restriction: the JS code published to be executed in your browser. Most of JS code attached to web pages has no explicit license, but the implicit license is that anyone can download it and run it. Same for HTML and CSS. So using that public code to train models is a no brainer.