SMRTR ProgrammingOct 5, 2025Hacker News

Language Agnostic Programming: Why you may still need code

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AI tools like GitHub Copilot can translate natural language into working code, but programming languages remain essential for debugging when AI-generated code inevitably fails. Looking ahead, AI might enable "language-agnostic programming" where code is written in one precise language like Rust but developers can view and debug it in their preferred language like Python or JavaScript.

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