Simple Made Inevitable: The Economics of Language Choice in the LLM Era
Summary
Felix Barbalet argues that as AI coding agents scale, language choice becomes a capital allocation decision. The piece compares Clojure's immutability and REPL feedback with Go and Python, highlighting how token efficiency, reduced accidental complexity, and ecosystem stability affect maintainability and performance in large LLM-driven codebases. It provides a framework for choosing languages based on long-term maintainability and cost, not just initial ease.