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If you think Claude needs manufactured hype at this point to sell it you're delusional.
Anthropic literally has an astroturfing program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945021
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The right to be suspicious of the motives of powerful people is infinitely more important than protecting their feelings from being hurt by suspicion.
Powerful people figured out how to make suspicion work for them long ago. You have every right to be unconditionally suspicious, but it’s not a good way of accomplishing any change. Also their feelings are not hurt by what you or I think, they don’t care.
I would have agreed with this like 15 years ago, but the very existence of Twitter (and the acquisition saga) proves this to not be true.
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What do you think one would have to pay to have flesh-and-blood engineers get a cross-language port of a codebase of over half a million lines with a broad test suite to over 99% conformance? I think it would be astronomically high, especially given that for this specific project your hiring pool is going to be limited to people who can get up to speed with Zig and JavaScriptCore right away (or you’re going to have t…
The hype machine is real and we will talk about it as long as it pleases us. It took decades to get rid of smoking in public places and restaurants, and the clankers will eventually fall, too. So cash out before that.
I just want to comment that I think it's a good change if we look past the AI involvement. Bun has had an extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs due to them using Zig, unlike Deno which is Rust. Of course, if Bun's Rust port has tons of `unsafe`, it won't magically solve them all, but it'll still get better
> Of course, if Bun's Rust port has tons of `unsafe`, it won't magically solve them all, but it'll still get better You get very few of the Rust guarantees when you litter your code with unsafe to get around the safety checks (which is what they're doing here). I would not recommend running this in production.
I think the industry is moving to English as the programming language, and specifications-context-tdd as the framework for building software. Many find it distasteful, and many finding liberating. I think it's broadly correlates with how they feel about expressing themselves in english vs say C++. As a side question, is there anyone who's using LLMs primarily in non-english mode to program? I suspect there's quite a…
I'm using it 50% English (personal projects)/50% Polish (workplace; reasons being agents.md / team is not that english proficient) and honestly I haven't seen much difference in the output/ambiguity. Polish prompts tend to be shorter due to the language having a lot of verb forms/conjugations, the only "bad" thing for me is that when it's saying "it broke" it tends to use uncanny / blunt words that make me sometimes…
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You would like the T3X language as an exercise to port stuff from Free Pascal too it. In a near future I plan to port two libre text adventures with it, Beyond the Titanic and Supernova. If it fits under T3X, it might run in 'high end' CP/M systems out there. https://t3x.org/t3x/0/index.html https://t3x.org/t3x/0/t3xref.html Beyond these Curses simple games, there's a 6502 assembler and disassembler among a Kim-1 sim…
Have to look into it, thanks.
Kinda like write vs printf in C, but easier to grasp. The cheatsheet will help you a lot.
Another thing: setting up the compiler might be cumbersome, I might post a guide soon. I am not the author but making it compile well on some arches can be odd (openbsd/amd64) vs native code (fbsd, 32 bit linux)... nothing complex once you set it up once.
My T3XDIR in the makefile and bin/ scripts it's set to $HOME/t3x0/lib and the bn PATH being set to $HOME/T3XDIR/bin in both Unix env vars and the scripts. It's a 10 minute setup, but after than you will just run
tx0 -c -s file
On Titanic/Supernova, well, it was a former TP game ported to FPC, is not very complex, and tons of stuff could map 1:1 to t3x. The game might be too big for CP/M but for DOS it would be ideal (even by using the T3X 'big' libraries).
The bundled cheatsheet (make will generate a cheatsheet.pdf file if you have groff) might help you. For instance, gotoxy can be written in T3X as con.move(x,y). You need to import the console library as:
use console: con;
Have fun.
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Half a million is pretty damn cheap for a full rewrite into Rust of a million line of code codebase.
But usually companies are much more careful before even spending that half a million. (And most companies don't have that money sitting around.) They would do small PoCs, do comprehensive benchmarks and evaluations of those PoCs, and decide whether to actually go ahead, and, more importantly, stick to it. Being able to afford half a million doesn't mean you do it on a whim, or just throw all of that away if things do…
Perfect, $1mil in salaries to spare the company $500k in spend :)
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Four days ago there was no intention to rewrite, now it's a simple desire to refactor. It's not adversarial conclusion, it's pointing out the clear hypocrisy.
Running an experiment, the experiment being more successful than you thought, and then deciding to put more effort into a bigger experiment is not hypocrisy. It’s engineering. If you think some of the objective facts they’re putting out (like test coverage and performance) are lies, go and prove it instead of appealing to emotion.
I harbor some hope that the (sad) fall of human SWEs will at least be accompanied by language defragmentation. We don't need 38 systems languages once human taste is mostly out of the picture.
Programming languages were always designed as an abstraction to allow humans to more easily instruct a computer than by writing binary or assembly. If humans write natural language and don't check the generated code, there's no reason to take the hit of generating C, JS, etc that still has to be compiled and/or interpreted.
But in all honesty, I don't understand the extremism in Rust engineers that reject any other language.