Comment by erichocean
17 hours ago
> I did discover that Claude produces sufficiently decent Haskell code.
Clojure generation is also very solid. Gemini Pro 2.5/3 is fantastic at it.
A part of me wonders if that is because these languages primarily have senior devs writing code, so the entire training set is "good" code.
The Erlang space vs the Elixir space (can't speak for agent based code generation here) would seem to give credence to this theory.
When I would explore Elixir forums with much larger communities there'd be myriad base level questions with code blocks written as if Elixir and Ruby were interchangable cause the syntax looks similar and thus missing out on many of the benefits of OTP.
But when you'd go to the Erlang community to ask a question, half the time the author of the book or library was one of the like... 20 people online at any given moment, and they'd respond directly. The quality of the discussions was of course much deeper and substantial much more consistently.
I have not tried to generate Elixir vs Erlang code but maybe it'd be a neat experiment to see if the quality seems better with Erlang