alt Hacker NewsI will leave this prediction here and maybe come back in few years:
1. JS is mem-safe, single-threaded, and there are lots of training data. Easily my first choice. I'd put Python here as well, although I don't like it personally. Both should be used with "avoid external deps" in your AGENTS.md
2. Go might be a good second choice. Simple language, IMO good primitives for concurrency, well-designed std, therefore smaller potential for supply chain attacks.
3. Elixir/Erlang, little training data but rising. Safe language, safe concurrency, immutable, scalable, there are some many advantages... It has been avoided because it's different but that could change drastically in the age of LLMs.
4. Rust is probably next choice, along with C++, because while Rust is safer, the language is quite complex. C might be here too, there is a lot of training data, but every project is different and the language is very unsafe.
5. Zig, I really like the language, but it is terrible for LLMs, mainly because it's constantly changing, and the std is also under-featured and IMO weirdly designed. It's a fun language for hobby hacking, which I believe is not going anywhere, it's just not going to be something you will be payed for.
I mostly use Elixir and JS, and I'm constantly surprised by how much easier and better the code quality is in Elixir, especially given the much smaller training data. I've started to use it for all my personal projects. I think Elixir's terseness, introspection capabilities, and strong ecosystem-wide quality guards really help.
At work, we use C#. I'm shocked at how much worse it is. I've also used a bunch of Python, but I still feel the quality isn't as good as the codebase grows, but I didnt put as much effort trying to improve it.