Simple Made Inevitable: The Economics of Language Choice in the LLM Era
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Two years into the LLM era, programming language selection criteria are shifting from human convenience to machine efficiency. While industries traditionally chose Python and JavaScript for their familiarity and large developer pools, LLMs make all languages equally learnable, leaving only the intrinsic quality of abstractions to matter—where Clojure's emphasis on simplicity, immutability, and token efficiency provides significant advantages in avoiding accumulated complexity at scale.
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