My take: Any gains from an "LLM-oriented language" will be swamped by the massive training set advantage held by existing mainstream languages. In order to compete, you would need to very rapidly build up a massive corpus of code examples in your new language, and the only way to do that is with... LLMs. Maybe it's feasible, but I suspect that it simply won't be worth the effort; existing languages are already good enough for LLMs to recursively self-improve.
The real issue with doing this is that there is no body of code available to train your models on. As a result the first few look like opinionated Python.
I'm always surprised when agents aren't working directly with the AST.
https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages...
Python too -- hear me out. With spec-driven development to anchor things, coupled with property-based tests (PBT) using Hypothesis, it's great for prototyping problems.
You wouldn't write mission critical stuff with it, but it has two advantages over so-called "better designed languages": massive ecosystem and massive training.
If your problem involves manipulating dataframes (polars, pandas), plotting (seaborn), and machine learning, Python just can't be beat. You can try using an LLM to generate Rust code for this -- go ahead and try it -- and you'll see how bad it can be.
Better ecosystems and better training can beat better languages in many problem domains.
People do, they also write mission critical stuff in Lua, TCL, Perl, and plenty of other languages. What they generally won't do is write performance critical stuff in those languages. But there is definitely some critical communication infrastructure out there running with interpreted languages like these out there.