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janpaul123 | 11 months ago

Good point! In that sense we're similar to most AI coding agents in that the languages we do well are the languages the mainstream LLMs do well. We might zoom in and add really good support for particular languages though (not decided yet), in which case we'll def mention that front and center!

Have you found any LLMs or coding agents that work well with Haxe? It might be a bit too niche for us (again, not sure yet), but I'd be very curious to see what they do well!

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999900000999|11 months ago

https://www.greptile.com/

This works well, however it literally will need to digest an entire repository. So for example if I feed it a repository for a haxe framework, it'll work much better than something like Chat GPT.

janpaul123|11 months ago

Thanks! That does look like a great tool.

Zondartul|11 months ago

In my unqualified opinion, LLMs would do better at niche languages or even specific versions of mainstream languages, as well as niche frameworks, if they were better at consultig the documentation for the language or framework, for example, the user could give the LLM a link to the docs or an offline copy, and the LLM would prioritise the docs over the pretrained code. Currently this is not feasible because 1. limited context is shared with the actual code, 2. RAG is one-way injection i to the LLM, the LLM usually wouldn't "ask for a specific docs page" even if they probably should.

janpaul123|11 months ago

100% agreed on both points. Point 1 relates to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486526 as well. It's one of the biggest challenges, though maybe it'll automatically get better through models with bigger context windows (we can't assume that though)?