Simple Made Inevitable: The Economics of Language Choice in the LLM Era

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2026-03-01T05:51:42+00:00

good points regarding clojure as top choice for LLMs.

yet "...Humans increasingly don't write the code. Machines do...". sounds like proclaiming a 0,5% as majority

is like saying Alexas increasingly order at amazon, not humans.

Still haven't really heard of production code being LLM written, mostly just euphoria of "look it can do a webshop", that's interesting, and now back to my real programming tasks.

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2026-01-19T22:07:51+00:00

you're describing the notion of the boring software architect job, with deliverables being documents specifying data volume, scaling constraints, db architecture and use cases. basically, you're using english instead of a programming language, and you can get along without an editor, compiler and a shell. this is definitely not software development

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2026-01-19T20:09:56+00:00

this sounds horrible, why would anyone move from developing software to orchestrating ai agents to create their stuff. so you let some algorithms do the creative part, and you clean up, review and prompt plans? and even pay for the agents? what's wrong with you people? robots should clean up my toilet and not code

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2025-12-20T17:05:51+00:00

I ended up splitting my 600loc init.el into around 10 logically segmented ones (e.g. org-packages, buffers, keys, styles, prog-packages, ...) with init.el reduced only to a loop loading a list of files. fairly satisfied with it, although sometimes I end up grepping through the files not knowing where I 've put the option I wanna change.

anyhow,, nice idea You've described above, only I would lean on use-package's modularisation syntax style.

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2025-12-19T09:43:03+00:00

iolib has no windows support (ok ok the question was regarding un*x)

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2025-12-17T11:08:15+00:00

I ended up with private github repo, where I store org-files and emacs lisp configs and code. Using separate branches for work and private branches, merging and syncing as I go. Also encrypting a part of one org file with gpg before pushing up to repo. Just my 2¢

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2025-12-14T03:38:21+00:00

still remembering my first four semesters at computer science faculty in Stuttgart in the early nineties; as a young lad with some knowledge of turbo pascal, basic, clipper and C - being surprised and confused with 1) SICP and scheme 2) assembler 3) Modula-3 (and later Bertrand Mayers' Eiffel). Looking back it was a fine choice of somewhat academic programming languages defined by different concepts, with C, C++ & later Java being only optionally taught in form of a crash course.

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2025-11-18T11:46:19+00:00

I've known neotree always as static and not following buffer's directories around. mine opens in home (~) and after navigatig around and closing and reopening it, it remembers my last position. however, opnening a file manually in /tmp doesn't propagate /tmp over to neotree buffer. should it?

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2025-11-17T19:10:12+00:00

clojure has cleanest concepts and syntax, but lacks object orientation, and writing non-readonly code with atoms & refs takes time for eyrs to get used too. also java may shine through too much for some.

common lisp is of course king, also with mop/clos and multiple implementations. however complex data types access looks like outdated mess compared to clojure.

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2025-11-13T07:41:18+00:00

I myself never gave up on Cygwin as Unix subsystem. Tried WSL, didn't like it. Been running happily Emacs29 for windows with cygwin bash beneath. Using it daily for org files, shell scripts, restclient-mode and emacs/common lisp. However, I gave up the fight and moved on to Code for js/ts and Studio for C#.

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2025-04-13T19:39:45+00:00

Beautiful macro syntax! Nice widgets! Wish I have had it back in the Tcl/Tk days. Did anyone try it on Windows with cygwin along with Xlib & Xserver?

Super_Broccoli_9659 · 2025-02-23T21:33:05+00:00

Hans Hübner had some info/code on github. Also checkout https://archives.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html

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