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Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

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Post by KMnO4 » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:04 PM UTC

danielvaughn wrote: post #9

I just want AI that will write a unit test for me.

Have you tried Copilot? It writes my unit tests 80% of the way. It’s the main reason I pay for it (I hate writing tests).

Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

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Post by john_the_writer » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:08 PM UTC

awb wrote: post #8

Interesting going from untyped languages to typed languages, as an inference needs to be made. For example, in JavaScript: function add(a, b) { return a + b; } converting to Go, it becomes: func add(a int, b int) int { return a + b } Where as the original JS version works with integers, floats, strings, arrays, etc.

Same for ruby and elixir. Assumed type..

Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

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Post by frontman1988 » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:09 PM UTC

First underwhelming AI post on the frontpage. Thank god our jobs are safe atleast!

Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

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Post by john_the_writer » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:09 PM UTC

Sirened wrote: post #20

finally: fully automated memory corruption

ha

Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

#25

Post by john_the_writer » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:12 PM UTC

lofatdairy wrote: post #18

MauranKilom wrote: post #7

Tried pasting a big piece of code. "Whoah, that's big, try something smaller." Ok, paste small snippet of code. Click "translate". "Sign up first". Urgh, fine, this looks just about exiting enough to try, but barely so. After signing up, I have zero credits, without a single translation performed. I mean, not that I expect free lunch, but I'm also not gonna pay money before seeing a single 10 line example.

At least the samples seem legit, in the sense that some break the algorithm badly enough that we can be confident they weren't hard-coded lol.

ha ha

Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

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Post by john_the_writer » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:12 PM UTC

RUBY... def add(a, b)

return a if b.zero?

return b if a.zero?

a + b

end

Now lets see elixir :)

I say the trial should allow at least one bit of code that we provide.

Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

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Post by SeanLuke » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:12 PM UTC

Not a good sign that this website thinks Java is an acronym. And has both "Lisp" and "Common Lisp".

Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

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Post by vgel » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:18 PM UTC

I had a particularly funny result: Trying sample #3 (put a record into S3) from Typescript to Python, it reliably... outputs a completely different program, which instead downloads an image from S3 and resizes it in /tmp. Weird.

Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

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Post by john_the_writer » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:23 PM UTC

I think the best case something like this could achieve is a syntax translate and nothing more.

At best I'd get Ruby code with elixir syntax.

Programming languages require thinking about memory and code differently. That's why we have them.

I'd be interested to see this in elixir :)

while (s++ = t++);

Re: AI converts between hundreds of programming languages

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Post by merlincorey » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:23 PM UTC

Seems completely broken now; like others, I tried to test something, found I had to sign up, signed up, and found I have "0 free credits".

I really wanted to see what it was gonna do for Python -> C++ converting some nested dictionary and list comprehensions:

    def foobar(x, y):
      return {
        _: __
        for _, __ in zip(
          [_ for _ in x if _ in y],
          [_ for _ in x if _ not in y]
        )
      }
        
    {3: 1, 4: 2} == foobar([1, 2, 3, 4], [3, 4, 5, 6])