Language Design Trade-offs for Agents
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-07-12
Discusses design trade-offs for an agent-oriented programming language:
- Enable garbage collection by default to move unnecessary work out of the 'critical thinking path', freeing up context window for the agent to tackle harder problems.
- However, don't rely primarily on GC for 'memory safety'; instead, handle it through verification.
- The author also emphasizes that this language will 'look boring', as there's no intention to retrain human reading habits just to accommodate a new syntax.
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