Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language
The author argues that Common Lisp is the ideal language for the AI era due to its image-based development and live-coding capabilities. These features allow for faster feedback loops when working with LLMs compared to traditional compiled languages.
Why it matters
It suggests a potential resurgence of older, highly interactive programming paradigms as developers seek better ways to integrate with AI coding assistants.
Would you agree that some programming languages are better than others? If so then one of them must be the best. And it’s actually Common Lisp especially now that LLMs can write code.
LLMs write code really fast, and that changes a lot, because writing code used to be the slow part. Now the slow part is finding out if your program actually works, and before you can do that you have to rebuild it, which can take a few minutes.
When humans wrote the code this didn't matter much, because writing took way longer than waiting for it to compile and start running. But now it does, so how long your feedback loop takes is what decides how fast you can build.
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