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your argument is a slippery slope. Unless you are amish, I don't think you would get very far without ending up looking like a hypocrite
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Re: Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables
#52You never know what’s going on in someone else’s Claude Max plan =D
Interesting that both you and nxtfari made essentially the same comment within an hour of each other, though yours is slightly modified
Just another glitch in the matrix. Guess whst chances were that this happend by pure coincidence. Dead Internet Theory is real.
Re: Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables
#53you never know what’s going on in someone else’s claude max plan
This answer is LLM generated.
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#55I bet claude was hyping this guy up as he was building it. "Absolutely, a rust compiler written in PHP is a great idea!"
Every compiler in any language for any language has at the very least educational value. On the other hand, demeaning comments without any traces of constructive criticism don't have any value.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no comment on whether LLMs/agents have been used. I feel like projects should explicitly say if they were _or_ were not used. There is no license file, and no copyright header either. This feels like "fauxpen-source": imagine getting LEX+YACC to generate a parser, and presenting the generated C code as "open-source". This is just another way to throw binaries over the wire, but much worse. This has the _wors…
According to his Readme he seems to have built a 3D engine completely from scratch 8 years ago without using any library: https://github.com/mrconter1/IntuitiveEngine > A simple 3D engine made only with 2D drawLine functions.
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Re: Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables
#57I think people don't really realise that compilers are "difficult" projects in the same way as an appendicectomy is for a skilled surgeon, i.e. the surgery is "routine" only because the surgeons spent decades honing their skills to do these routinely. The hard part was training someone to be able to do that. Writing a compiler/interpreter is _extremely_ straightforward; a lexer -> parser -> ast -> semantic analysis -…
That’s true for any software project - on average only 5% goes into developing of the first version, while 95% goes into continuous development, support, and maintenance.
Re: Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables
#58PHP is too high level for this task - might as well write Rust compiler in a Tiring Machine.