I think we should consider slime mold intelligent, and realise that it's a spectrum. Path finding is AI. There are probably forms of intelligence we have yet to discover.

School shootings happen every year in the US, yet guns aren't banned.

Besides, banning open models would put ordinary US businesses at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the world.

I also think it signals that I was happy with that solution in the ongoing conversation.

On the other hand, I'm much more sloppy with my writing.

The token cost is irrelevant, tool calls and reasoning probably dominates.

In Rust, which is arguably also a low level language, it looks like this:

    enum Option {
        None,
        Some(T),
    }

  fn Maybe(comptime T: type) type {
    return union(enum) {
        value: T,
        nothing,

        const Self = @This();

        pub fn just(the_val: T) Self   { return .{ .value = the_val }; }
        pub fn nothing() Self          { return .nothing; }

      }
    }

    data Maybe a = Just a | Nothing

https://www.firefly-lang.org/

ruby-lang.com stood out with a text in a big font:

Ruby is...

Followed by a paragraph about what makes Ruby special. I think that was an exceptionally simple and natural way of introducing something as complex as a programming language.

It ticks some of the boxes, but tonnes of work would be needed to turn it into a full alternative.

In any case, if you take it for a spin, I'd love some feedback.

https://www.firefly-lang.org/

Speed is not an optional feature on the web. The site above is written in Firefly, uses hydration, and scores 100% on PageSpeed Insights.

The language is largely complete, and we're now working on DX: Got a language server, a devserver, and some essential libraries.