Why care about programming languages

A developer argues that programming languages still matter deeply in the AI coding era — not for their syntax, but for the fundamental ideas they embody. Concepts like Rust's borrow checker, Haskell's typeclasses, algebraic data types, and first-class functions expand a developer's mental toolkit for reasoning about computation. These ideas are what enable engineers to evaluate AI-generated code, choose appropriate abstractions, and build maintainable systems — making conceptual depth more valuable, not less, as AI takes over code generation.

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