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I’ve always fantasized about the eval() function in JS, which means if you feed it the correct random string, it could modify itself (which even the human brain

I’ve always fantasized about the eval() function in JS, which means if you feed it the correct random string, it could modify itself (which even the human brain can’t do). The AI version of Bogosort ;) If you try to generate language artifacts, maybe you need to gather the sources of major projects, which large companies can do easily with their internal codebase.

Someone 6y ago
You can modify quite a few objects in JavaScript, but you can’t modify JavaScript using eval. There’s no way to add an operator to it, for example (AFAIK. I’m not following its rapid evolution closely) If you want that, use Smalltalk, a Lisp or a Forth. Also, the brain does modify itself at least as much as you can modify JavaScript. For example, my brain nowadays accepts that 0.999999… is equal to 1, that there are equally many primes as natural numbers, etc.