Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write | Hacker News

Hacker News discussed Vera, a proposed machine-oriented language, after claims that dropping variable names would make LLM coding more reliable.

Many commenters pushed back, saying names, whitespace, locality, and human readability still matter for both agents and developers.

They argued older language-design assumptions and research may not reflect how modern coding agents actually work.

The debate broadened into a bigger question: should languages be redesigned for machines, or optimized for readable code, tests, and tooling that humans can maintain?