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Sure, but you've got to start somewhere! And with the amount of progress I was able to make in just a few weeks, I'm very optimistic that the polish will come s
by adius 7mo ago
Sure, but you've got to start somewhere! And with the amount of progress I was able to make in just a few weeks, I'm very optimistic that the polish will come sooner rather than later.
- the__alchemist 7mo agoBased on the list of contributors to your project, I am not sure this starting location is optimally suited to the task of building a foundation for polished, reliable, expandable software.
- adampunk 7mo agoIn that case I kindly refer you to the matter of Arkell v. Pressdam.
- s3p 7mo agoThe sneering on HN really has no end. This is a good project! I for one am very excited to see an interpreter born out of rust.
- mountainriver 7mo agoIt’s so obnoxious
- Keyframe 7mo agoIt's a defense mechanism. I was guilty as charge as well initially. Suddenly most of your l33t skillz are trivialized and surpassed by an inhumane actor. It's a tough pill to swallow.
- adius 7mo agoIt's having ~ 5000 tests already. Used correctly, AI agents can help you improve the quality of the code!
- the__alchemist 7mo agoDo you see why this perspective is a red flag on its own?
- mountainriver 7mo agoNo I don’t, review your code
- supriyo-biswas 7mo agoIf I go by the contributor numbers on Github, I see Claude has committed something on the order of 300,000 lines of code. I don't think it's reasonable to review that much code, even in weeks worth of time.
- zenware 7mo agoI haven’t needed to do such a thing in a while, but my “rule” for explaining how unreasonable is to say “if I only glanced at each line of code for 1 second, without bothering to understand the details, it would take me 3 and a half full 24hr days non stop to simply look at”. So it’s definitely more than 1 work week because presumably other stuff is going to need to get done in that time too. Actually understanding it is going to be at least a multiple of that, and probably the multiple is ~30x.
- ComplexSystems 7mo agoI certainly don't. If a software developer has found a way to use these tools that works well for them and produces good results, that's a good thing.
- hobs 7mo agoI have no dog in this fight, but simply claiming a count of tests get you anything is like saying your code coverage is 100% - it sounds really good until you think about what 5000 unreviewed tests actually... do.
- jjtheblunt 7mo agoi'm curious if you intend to reimplement highly optimized numerical algorithms, symbolic algorithms, and so on, accumulated and tuned in mathematica since its 1988 release? it's a huuuuuuuuge amount of technology in the standard library of mathematica, beyond the surface syntax and rewrite system, i mean.