It’s mostly that Go was already pioneering how to build a programming language that had an amazing scheduler, garbage collector, compiler, package manager, formatter, etc. They spent all of their “innovation budget” on the most important—and most neglected—features of any programming language and allowed the language itself to be pretty boring.
replyEventually Go’s runtime and tooling will be bog standard and everyone will think of them as boring and then people will start building more exciting languages on top of them. Assuming AI doesn’t blow everything up.
AI needs strong types just as much as human developers.
replyStrong types also improve the interaction between humans and AI: shitty code is way more obvious with strong types. Pure strong-type langs like Elm take this to an even higher level: all cases must handled, such that runtime errors are practically impossible to express.
I've worked professionally on a large Elm program that has had 5 devs on it, and the promise held out: no runtime error, ever. Other stories for this exist.