Should you pick a boring language like Go so coding agents write more reliable code? A widely-shared argument says low-variance ecosystems beat fragmented ones like JavaScript or Python. The likelier driver is corpus size, not variance: models are strongest on the most-represented languages, the fragmented ones. And betting on the median buys reliability where it was already cheapest, not on the unfamiliar work that costs time.

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Use Boring Languages with LLMs – synesis

Coding agents produce more reliable output in cohesive language ecosystems like Go than in fragmented ones like JavaScript or Python.

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