Why care about programming languages

Something that I think we will see soon (if it doesn't exist already), are programming languages that are specifically designed to be used with LLMs doing the coding, with natural language as the primary input. Maybe LLMs will get so good that it's just not necessary, but it's hard to imagine a world in which this new paradigm of most users using coding harness (or event totally autonomous agents) doesn't end up having serious influence on language design itself.

One outcome I would love to see is average programmers (or even vibecoders) being able to create performant applications. Imagine if the issue of making an attractive cross-platform application didn't mean using a chromium-based Electron type framework.

Or, perhaps things we used to code in Java or C# can be more easily brought into existence in a lower-level language akin to Rust, but far more easy to create and maintain due to LLM assistance.

If you let something built with programming languages speak on your behalf in programming languages and you can’t read those programming languages, you’re not long going to enjoy the benefit of programming languages.

Furthermore, each language encourages a particular idiomatic architecture.

Guiding AI to work with that architecture, rather than fight against or simply ignore it, is still an area where we, as humans, add value.