Comment by quantified
3 months ago
So, what are the chances that the pendulum swings to lower-level programming via LLM-generated C/C++ if LLM-generated Rust doesn't emerge? Note that this question is a context switch from gaming to something larger. For gaming, it could easily be that the engine and culture around it (frequent regressions, etc) are the bigger problems than the language.
I haven't coded in C/C++ in years but friends who do and worked on non-trivial codebase in those languages had a really crappy experience with LLMs too.
A friend of mine only understood why i was so impressed by LLMs once he had to start coding a website for his new project.
My feeling is that low-level / system programming is currently at the edge of what LLMs can do. So i'd say that languages that manage to provide nice abstractions around those types of problems will thrive. The others will have a hard time gaining support among young developers.