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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
by 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 agoIt produced...something, alright. Something that can be replaced by a very small shell script.
- vidarh 1y agoAnd 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.