Stephen Ramsay's blog post If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C? raises the point that if we're all vibe coding now, it might not matter what language is generated by the AI.
| Resource information | Details |
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| Article Title | If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C? |
| Authors | Stephen Ramsay |
| Focus | AI Tools for Software Development |
"Programming languages are for humans, not computers" is a fact that is easy to forget when you spend a lot of time writing in one of those languages in order to get a computer do to something interesting or solve a problem. Over the history of computing we (humans) have created quite a few languages for programming computers, generally moving in the direction away from the machine language computers natively work in, towards a language that is easier for humans to understand and be effective in.
Now with AI models allowing us to Vibe Code by writing in our native spoken language and the AI generates the results of our requests in a programming language, Stephen Ramsay's blog post above asks the question: "Why vibe code with a language that has human convenience and ergonomics in view?", why not have the AI write in C, or for that matter machine language? Or maybe we want to come up with a "Vibe-Oriented Programming language" (VOP) that makes it easier for us to express ideas to the AI as opposed to a compiler?
Ramsay asserts a couple of interesting ideas, not without some controversy (addressed in the article), that are perhaps even more surprising and obvious than programming languages are for humans not machines.
