Is it possible to build a text-based general purpose language that is at a higher-level than Python, Ruby, JavaScript and so on without actually resorting to natural language / vibe coding?
I've heard that using Lisp you can create abstractions so that you program close to your domain, but is that the best we can do? I'm one of those people who don't enjoy those pesky parentheses.
When I was building my first Android app in Java back in 2011 as a noob developer, I assumed one had to buy a domain before naming a Java package.
Computer Users:
1950 - 2022: Damn, computers do exactly what they're told, nothing more, nothing less. Why can't they understand what I'm actually trying to do?
2022 onwards: Damn, LLMs don't do exactly what they're told. Why do they hallucinate?
In the good old days, programming language creators designed the workhorse integer data type.
As soon as the computer industry started minting billionaires, all of a sudden, we started needing those esoteric big ints as well.
On a related note, it's amazing how Google's Map Reduce framework was created around the same time as Google's IPO. Google needed a new way to count all that money.