> I have worked with PHP, Go, JavaScript, and Python in a professional capacity for over 10 years now.

Well if it's a choice between these 4, then sure. Not sure that really suffices to qualify Go as "the" best language for agents

what would you prefer? i liked rust a lot as i found the compiler feedback loop pretty great, but the language was much more verbose and i found the simplicity of Go to be great, and the typing system is good enough for almost everything.

I have a feeling F# would work great, but unfortunately we don't use it at work so I can't experiment with the fancy expensive models. Only problem might be amount of training data.

Elixir works pretty well with the LLMs

that's kind of the point

Adults love bamba too (speaking as an adult who ate two bags of it just yesterday)

The evolutionary fitness of a particular adaptation helps spread the genes that causes the adaptation. I think backpropagation is a very apt description for that phenomenon

That's propagation.

Beautiful comment, I really enjoyed reading it!

For its beautiful white on black projector display

Just because religion also says something doesn't make it a religious notion

I think they’re saying it’s religious in the sense that it’s definitionally unknowable.

We know that everything we ever experience is something generated by our own brain (approximately).

We assume that our brain is generating our experience based on some sort of external reality, but that thing we can only assume exists because we’ll never be able to step outside our brain to experience it.

It's not linked at all, it just uses "The Elm Architecture" as inspiration to recreate the same architecture in F#

F# is my go-to language for new backend projects and console apps. You can be as functional as you like, with imperative/mutable/OOP escape hatches available for those rare but unavoidable times you need them

Have to agree. Recently decided to try out Python instead. Everyone at work wanted Python, it's popular, so why not give it a shot. In constant regret, missing the type checking in F#.

I haven't done so yet but I keep meaning to check out Fable's support for F#-to-Python: https://fable.io/docs/getting-started/python.html

for console apps, F# sadly suffers from general .NET issues for console apps. Very large size (>150MB for a simple app) and at least 400-700msec startup time

AOT compilation is actually usable in net7, and I'm told it's got much better in net8 - massively reduces startup time (and in net8 apparently binary size too)!

Interesting. I never upgraded to 7, been waiting to try 8 when it’s out. Might give the beta a try

My CLI is 180-185ms startup time, and about 10-20MB for a complex app (with a runtime dependency).

keyword: with a runtime dependency :)

For CLIs I much prefer self-contained build outputs which is quite huge when it comes to .NET unfortunately.

They were indeed experts but that wasn't a sufficient reason for it to be such a smooth experience

I mean... if the point he's making is that expertise doesn't affect the quality of the product or experience then he's very wrong.

For table making it might have been?