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I have a hunch that current LLMs might make it easier to launch a brand new programming language, provided you can describe it in a few thousand tokens and ship it with a compiler and linter that coding agents can use simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/7/l...

Honest question that might be impossible to answer in a way that I might understand. Will there be an esperanto type of computer language that all the old orphan computer languages will be able to be read in so that all the old research and data won't be lost?

I think old language execution is more or less a solved problem now thanks to emulators - we can run code from 50 years ago on an emulator, or even an emulator inside an emulator A lot of those emulators run in the browser now thanks to WebAssembly!