https://github.com/hsaliak/filc-bazel-template i created this recently to make it super easy to get started with fil-c projects. If you find it daunting to get started with the setup in the core distribution and want a 3-4 step approach to building a fil-c enabled binary, then try this.
It's interesting that we do not have a wave of tier-2 companies with NNN Million dollar cap releasing anything competitive. It's the big 4 labs vs the chinese labs. No Tier-2.
It's been a long time since they were good. But Europe definitely needs a homegrown frontier model company, one way or the other. I consider them Tier 2 right now.
this aligns perfecly with my experience, but of course, the discourse on X and other forums are filled with people who are not hands on. Marketing is first out of the gate. These models are not yet good enough to be put through a long coding session. They are getting better though! GLM 4.7 and Kimi 2.5 are alright.
There is a balance to be struck. Not everyone is going to be comfortable with ralph loops. Some are going to be OK with running a single agent, some with advanced code completion or code generation for specific functionality and so on.
The tooling is going to change how we do development no doubt, but people are going to find their comfortable spot, and be productive.
A language targeting an LLM might be well served with a lot of keywords, similar to a CISC instruction set, where keywords do specific things well. Giving it building blocks and having them piece together is likely to pay off.
It's not about how it starts. It always starts small and measured, but once you open up to ads, you open up the pandora's box of enshittification paths.
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