It's expensive of course, but if a new language is genuinely better for LLMs to write and understand, that would not be an issue.
I guess it depends on what "would work better" really means, but I don't think it's always a given. I've made my own languages, there is no available training set on exactly those, but AI with a prompt can figure out how to effectively use them as much as any other language, it seems to me. I guess it helps that most languages are more similar to each other than different, but even experimenting with new syntax seems to work out OK for me.
- GitHub syntax highlighting
- IDE integrations, LSP
- Modules and dependency management
I don't see an agent first language becoming a thing while humans are still ultimately responsible.