Ask HN: Any objective research on which languages are best for AI agents?
4 pointsby mwigdahl4 hours ago5 comments
  • Leftium2 hours ago
    Theo video based on data from Tencent's Autocodebench: https://youtu.be/iV1EcfZSdCM

    Conclusion: Elixir was the best (had the highest problem solve rate).

    Reasons (Theo's interpretation):

    - code collocation, where documentation is integrated directly within the source code

    - design philosophy of a language (readability, clear idioms, and strict expectation management)

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    Sources from video:

    - https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark/tree/ma...

    - https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages...

    - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/nanolang/#atom-everyth...

  • steveklabnik4 hours ago
    The frontier moves quickly enough that empiric testing is often out of date by the time that it’s published.
    • mwigdahl4 hours ago
      For sure! It's possible there are relatively invariant properties that make one language or another "better" for LLM coding in general though (even if that's just the self-fulfilling prophecy of size of the training corpus).
      • steveklabnik3 hours ago
        I’m in agreement that I think that these exist, but I just haven’t seen anything that justifies this belief of mine yet. I have been looking, but it’s possible I just haven’t seen anything seen it.

        I’ve seen a lot of blog posts with fairly dubious claims here with relatively flimsy evidence. And I’ve seen a few papers trying to tackle the topic. But I think it’s a very open area of research currently.

  • markus_zhangan hour ago
    Which language is worst for AI? Just curious.
  • andsoitis3 hours ago
    DSLs work especially well with LLMs. DSLs focus on a narrow set of concepts in a single domain.
  • SuperLede2 hours ago
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