Comment by fine_tune

2 months ago

I was going to argue "LLM's need code samples to-do well on languages and if we are honest C# is a language mostly held in private repo's" but Github's 2024 report[0] says its the 5th most used language (I'm to lazy to check if this report includes private repo's but I'll assume it doesn't).

So kinda neat to see this paper!

[0]https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-2024/#...

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CuriouslyC  2 months ago

The big labs are almost certainly using compiler/repl output for generated code as an oracle for RL. I doubt they have C# in the mix.

  • tomjakubowski  2 months ago

    Why do you doubt that? It's a widely used language. And there is even an open source C# REPL.

    • CuriouslyC  2 months ago

      Because RL time is expensive and I don't think the languages which are more popular than C# have such high performance that it's worth bumping their batches for C#.

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yieldcrv  2 months ago

5th most used language based on private repos that the group making the report has the exclusive direct access to seeing

I don't see that contradicting your assumption