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Debugging Zig in LLDB is painful. Slices show up as { ptr, len }, optionals are unreadable, and slice[0] just errors out. Python formatters help a bit but don’t fix expressions. zi…

Moving away from Github may end up killing the project.

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I'll gladly discuss at length things that are near and dear to my heart. Facing random people in the public court of opinion is not one of them! Also, there's long-form writing in …

Remind me please, when did I sign up to meet your expectations?

With all due respect, try to read things before opining on them. The PR explains why I did the work.

It's both but the focus is on the future.

I'm not trying to say that this is now projects ought to work right now. I do think this is where we are heading, though. No, existing open source projects are not ready for this a…

Yep, that's me! I will look into renaming myself, although don't think HN allows this.

It was a bug in my own modes to the Zig compiler not in the stock compiler itself.

This ought to be automated using AI. It could first judge whether the PR is frivolous, then try to review it, then flag a human if necessary. The problem is that Github, or whateve…

This is an excerpt from the session where AI is writing my Lisp compiler. What do you call this? I call this doing what a competent developer does! 39/40 tests pass. The native rea…

Are you speaking from experience? Have you actually tried writing a "list" compiler?

Check the 2nd PR, the one in my repo and not the one that was rejected.

I agree with you.

It's not. It's absolutely justified for the OCaml maintainers to reject this PR. I feel completely different about my Zig PR [1] but, hey, it's not my playground and the Zig folks …

Which is something I agreed with and apologized for, and admitted was somewhat of a PR stunt. Now, what's your question?

I had $1000 in Claude credits to spend for the greater good.

I'm strictly talking about the 10-line Zig PR above. Well-documented and tested.

You can ask AI to write documentation for humans. Also, I'll try to break up the PR sometime but I'm already running Claude using two $200/mo accounts, in addition to another $200/…

It wouldn't do much. I find that ChatGPT 5.1 was much better at reviewing this code than writing it so I had it review Claude's output until the review was clean. This is in additi…

It's quite complicated in this case. The Jane St (OxCaml) DWARF implementation is also tightly coupled with the compiler.

I don't always use OCaml (meme coming in 1...2...3) and maintaining a fork is a significant undertaking. More importantly, being able to debug native OCaml binaries and actually se…

I challenge you to actually demonstrate that the code was taken instead of generated or derived. Otherwise, you are just shooting your mouth off.