ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

I know it's a bit of trope to say this on HN... but why not Lisp?

If I make the assumption that future ML code will be written by ML algorithms (or at least 'transpiled' from natural language), and Lisp S-Expressions are basically the AST, it would make sense that it would be the most natural language for a machine to write in. As a side benefit, it's already the standard to have a very feature complete REPL, so as a replacement for Python it seems it would fit well

LLMs have trouble counting parentheses accurately. ;)

We need a lisp that is written in JSON. That should fix it

It would REBOLutionize everything.

Yann LeCun and others created https://lush.sourceforge.net, which was a Lisp for ML.

It was probably the best option during the 2000s, and only superseded when Theano (Python) and Torch (Lua) emerged.

A Lisp comeback in this niche would be great. Python has fantastic libraries, but the language leaves a lot to be desired.

Because it got burned in the last AI hype cycle, and many devs still think Emacs + SBCL is the only way, never even bothered to open the websites of LispWorks, Allegro Common Lisp or Clozure (not the JVM one).

First version of Torch was in LISP. Python is where people are, and in turn a data for LLMs.

Optimal ML lang is half-way from LISP to APL.