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ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

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311 points melodyogonna | 3 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tree_enjoyer ◴[05 Sep 25 20:45 UTC] No.45143384[source]▶
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

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layer8 ◴[05 Sep 25 21:01 UTC] No.45143569[source]▶
LLMs have trouble counting parentheses accurately. ;)
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1. trallnag ◴[05 Sep 25 23:05 UTC] No.45144742[source]▶
We need a lisp that is written in JSON. That should fix it
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2. cjohnson318 ◴[05 Sep 25 23:13 UTC] No.45144818[source]▶
It would REBOLutionize everything.
3. sorry_i_lisp ◴[06 Sep 25 07:12 UTC] No.45147272[source]▶
https://github.com/delaneyj/jackalope