--- title: Will AI force code to evolve or make it extinct? | daily.dev description: AI is reshaping how developers think about programming languages, but not necessarily by spawning new AI-first languages. Experts argue that strongly typed... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/will-ai-force-code-to-evolve-or-make-it-extinct--zwb63chyi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Will AI force code to evolve or make it extinct? | daily.dev og:description: AI is reshaping how developers think about programming languages, but not necessarily by spawning new AI-first languages. Experts argue that strongly typed... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/will-ai-force-code-to-evolve-or-make-it-extinct--zwb63chyi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zwb63chyI.png og:image:alt: Will AI force code to evolve or make it extinct? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Will AI force code to evolve or make it extinct? **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 10 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI is reshaping how developers think about programming languages, but not necessarily by spawning new AI-first languages. Experts argue that strongly typed languages like Rust and TypeScript are gaining ground because AI tools work better with explicit, constrained syntax — Rust's compiler acts as a guardrail for LLM-generated code, and TypeScript became the most-used language on GitHub in 2025. While some developers are experimenting with AI-optimized languages and others speculate about a future where AI generates intermediate code directly without high-level languages, most practitioners remain skeptical. The more likely near-term outcome is that AI absorbs the friction of complex languages, shifting which existing languages win rather than replacing them entirely. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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