With AI assistance, does the programming language even matter anymore?

tdhopper · x · 2026-11-11

A repost chain: Rep. Thomas Massie says all his projects (Debt Badge, Clucks Capacitor, a homemade power-wall, haptic-interface sculpting software) use C/C++, and muses that with AI assistance 'the clunkiness of developing in C disappears and the efficiency shines — how soon until the language doesn't matter?'

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