Will we ever see a new programming language scale again?
With foundational models trained on the vast existing corpus of Python, what would it take for another general-purpose language to catch up? Does Julia have a chance of moving beyond its current niche?
Some new languages like Mojo are already being marketed as having “Pythonic syntax” (a superset of Python).
The post titled The Worst Language Won was the trigger for my question:
Python is the language of AI. By all conventional measures, it shouldn’t be.
Python is slow. Thousands of times slower than C, it loses benchmarks to languages that died decades ago.
Python is unsafe. With no compiler to catch your mistakes, your code’s flaws are exposed when it breaks in use.
Despite the intro, the post is actually praising Python’s experimental nature.