The only one that worked on me wasn't even elitist in its framing.

Try TypeScript! It makes your JavaScript better!

That was enough for me.

> these companies don't function in spite of their technology choices.

shows you never worked at "big succesful companies".

LOC doesn’t have much to do with the “constraints of the language”.

Stripe has dabbled in Golang. There is also a growing Java monorepo.

Stripe uses Sorbet which, in my experience, increases LOC.

It's almost like other factors than language choice are more important :)

You actually think that LLMs are not fed docs on how they work in order to help users interact with them better? Asking an LLM how to use it is based on the reasonable presumption that the company making it will prioritize making it useful for users and work on programming it with its own best practices.

Again, it makes perfect sense as well based on how they are trained in the first place. Look at how they tokenize whitespace and you will see why it's useful. Each number of repeating white spaces gets a unique token (so 2 whitespaces = token1, 3 whitespaces = token2) - so it actually does make a very clear reinforcing hierarchy readily available. And we all know if there is anything an LLM needs, it is reinforcement of important points.

For you, the person reading and writing the code