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Which programming languages are most token-efficient?

Martin Alderson · published 8 January 2026

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convexhuman.com

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I ported Photoshop 1.0 to C# in 30 minutes Read at the source ↗

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Which web frameworks are most token-efficient for AI agents? Read at the source ↗

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https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

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https://github.com/acmeism/RosettaCodeData

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https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

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The Technical User's Introduction to LLM Tokenization Read at the source ↗

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