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the author of the site makes no secret that the website is vibecoded. You're unfairly extrapolating that the product itself is vibe-coded (hard to do unless he
by jazza68 2mo ago
the author of the site makes no secret that the website is vibecoded. You're unfairly extrapolating that the product itself is vibe-coded (hard to do unless he is a time-traveller). And you're missing the point of the unique advantages that L offers wrt computation on compressed data.
- jloveless 2mo agoyup website is Claude Design for prototype. For the core ... AI has been less helpful than I hoped - I believe largely because array style languages have so little source in training? But where Claude was especially helpful (other than the web design w/ Claude Design for the prototype) was analyzing ASM output of functions and optimizing those (although it was hard to go ASM>C or ASM>rust). E.g. lots of small mistakes would have been missed by not having restrict/const in places. Claude was great at compile all functions, analyze ASM, suggest optimized ASM (and ASM2vec was helpful as well for finding any "similar" code paths that could be combined (e.g. var/dev/cov are just moments)
- throwaway2037 2mo ago> But where Claude was especially helpful (other than the web design w/ Claude Design for the prototype) was analyzing ASM output of functions and optimizing those E.g. lots of small mistakes would have been missed by not having restrict/const in places. This is very interesting. It would be worth a separate blog post. I'm sure it would trend well on HN!
- lioeters 2mo agoFair enough. Without seeing the code itself, one can only judge the book by its cover. I'm interested, but maybe not quite the target audience.
- jloveless 2mo agogive it a spin! download is ~500kb for mac. It is however targeting folks who come from that world - but K/Q are absolutely worth exploring!
- jloveless 2mo agoUnfortunately the code itself is in a style of C many find difficult to read. I blame my upbringing. ATW open sourced examples and it was not really helpful. More recently others are doing a step by step in more standard C https://github.com/ardentsia-cgs/kparser/ https://github.com/ardentsia-cgs/kparser/
- hatefulmoron 2mo agoIsn't that "more standard C" because it's written by Claude?
- AUnterrainer 2mo agoArthur Whitney's C is everything but standard
- pillmillipedes 2mo agotalking about the linked parser which is clearly claude's not arthur's
- hatefulmoron 2mo agoNot sure how you're replying to me without looking at the link.
- jazza68 2mo agothis page/site seems fascinated with Claude, to the point where it is an unnecessary distraction.
- veqq 2mo agoMany of us can read atw C and would love to investigate!
- lioeters 2mo ago[dead]