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While at it: How much Perl code is still running in production? I only know about two large Perl codebases, at Debain, and at booking.com.
I thought CraigsList and maybe eBay?
Initially, the page looked very intriguing and the promises looked every fascinating. A whole DX toolchain in one binary? The binary can run in different systems? Only 3 MB? Then I read the comments here saying its ai slop, I lost all my interest now.
why? why you should care if it is human written or by ai, if the result is the same?
This language, README, website has been written by AI agents. At one point, the author may have written a fair bit of code by hand (starting with a Crafting Interpreters project, and then adapting it recently using agents?). The commit history is very confusing. The design of the VM is nearly identical to the clox interpreter in Crafting Interpreters . There's also a bit of Lua inspiration mixed in the instruction en…
Given that it's written in C (and assuming it actually compiles), I'm likely to believe the cross-platform claim.
This language, README, website has been written by AI agents. At one point, the author may have written a fair bit of code by hand (starting with a Crafting Interpreters project, and then adapting it recently using agents?). The commit history is very confusing. The design of the VM is nearly identical to the clox interpreter in Crafting Interpreters . There's also a bit of Lua inspiration mixed in the instruction en…
> With that being said, I'd take the cross platform claims with an extreme grain of salt ... Given that it's written in C (and assuming it actually compiles), I'm likely to believe the cross-platform claim.
Initially, the page looked very intriguing and the promises looked every fascinating. A whole DX toolchain in one binary? The binary can run in different systems? Only 3 MB? Then I read the comments here saying its ai slop, I lost all my interest now.
why? why you should care if it is human written or by ai, if the result is the same?
Human effort signals value, AI does not.
Human effort is often inviting collaboration. AI rarely does.
Perl developers that depend on XS [1] for extending their code's behavior will have a "lovely" time with this lol! Here's an example https://github.com/adriaandens/XSamples/blob/master/XSamples... [1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlxs
While at it: How much Perl code is still running in production? I only know about two large Perl codebases, at Debain, and at booking.com.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
why? why you should care if it is human written or by ai, if the result is the same?
That’s a big if. I am not willing to spend time on reviewing slop. I am already on my limit of how much information I process daily.
Then, what if ai will write something cool/good/interesting/high quality/amazing?
It’s a bit hard to tell what’s interesting about the language itself. On the website, the standard library lacks a table of contents, but you can see what it has here: https://github.com/xs-lang0/xslang.org/tree/main/src/app/doc...
It's a small language that looks familiar if you know other imperative Algol-derived languages. The point is not in that, the point is a single binary for everything, and portability. It's like busybox, which is unremarkable as Unix userland, but is interesting because it's a single small binary. But beyond the standard Algolish stuff, XS seems to have quite a few modern niceties, such as traits, generics, closures,…
Perl developers that depend on XS [1] for extending their code's behavior will have a "lovely" time with this lol! Here's an example https://github.com/adriaandens/XSamples/blob/master/XSamples... [1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlxs
While at it: How much Perl code is still running in production? I only know about two large Perl codebases, at Debain, and at booking.com.