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I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language. You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms. > how much did th

I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language. You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms. > how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms demonstrates only bad qualities.

swader999 1y ago
Bro, it's literally giving new language energy. Enjoy your semicolons boomer!
roxolotl 1y ago
Yea I’d expect Claude to be able to one shot this and I’m pretty pessimistic about the capability of these tools. I’m just so bewildered by posts like this.
- vidarh 1y ago
  One-shot a regexp, sure. One-shot a full compiler, not a chance. Check out the repository - it has a full compiler that produces binaries, and a bunch of additional tooling. Doing that, even if he'd asked for a compiler for an existing language with no changes, is impressive.
philipp-gayret 1y ago
Well, that was the author's intent. The prompt was: > Hey, can you make me a programming language like Golang but all the lexical keywords are swapped so they're Gen Z slang?
vidarh 1y ago
The language is the least interesting part of this. What is interesting is if it was truly built with a simple loop and without manual involvement to produce a working compiler (albeit with fairly cursed code... 5.5kloc for a parser for a grammar that appears this simple is not great) Sadly, the linked page glosses over the specifics of the setup and instead focused on the less interesting parts..
- BugsJustFindMe 1y ago
  It produced...something, alright. Something that can be replaced by a very small shell script.
  - vidarh 1y ago
    And that is entirely irrelevant, as the purpose was to produce a compiler. As an experiment this is amazing in terms of telling us a lot about how capable these tools are. Most developers would not be capable of producing a working compiler and the associated tooling in this kind of timeframe.
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swader999 1y ago

Bro, it's literally giving new language energy. Enjoy your semicolons boomer!

roxolotl 1y ago

Yea I’d expect Claude to be able to one shot this and I’m pretty pessimistic about the capability of these tools. I’m just so bewildered by posts like this.

vidarh 1y ago
One-shot a regexp, sure. One-shot a full compiler, not a chance. Check out the repository - it has a full compiler that produces binaries, and a bunch of additional tooling. Doing that, even if he'd asked for a compiler for an existing language with no changes, is impressive.

philipp-gayret 1y ago

Well, that was the author's intent. The prompt was: > Hey, can you make me a programming language like Golang but all the lexical keywords are swapped so they're Gen Z slang?

vidarh 1y ago

The language is the least interesting part of this. What is interesting is if it was truly built with a simple loop and without manual involvement to produce a working compiler (albeit with fairly cursed code... 5.5kloc for a parser for a grammar that appears this simple is not great) Sadly, the linked page glosses over the specifics of the setup and instead focused on the less interesting parts..

BugsJustFindMe 1y ago
It produced...something, alright. Something that can be replaced by a very small shell script.
- vidarh 1y ago
  And that is entirely irrelevant, as the purpose was to produce a compiler. As an experiment this is amazing in terms of telling us a lot about how capable these tools are. Most developers would not be capable of producing a working compiler and the associated tooling in this kind of timeframe.

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