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rubyn00bietoday at 12:40 AM0 repliesview on HN

I think there’s a certain amount of novelty to this, and the aesthetic of the language I find pleasing, but I’m a little confused… Admittedly, I didn’t read the entire doc and only quickly glanced at the source… But is it just transpiling Golang code to and from this syntax, or is it intended to be a whole language eventually? Can folks able to just import golang packages or do they have to only use what packages are currently supported?

Additionally I have two thoughts about it:

1. I think this might be more practical as a transparent layer so users can write and get Golang (or whatever) the original language was back. Essentially making it something only the model reads/outputs.

2.) Longer term it seems like both NVidia and AMD along with the companies training/running the models are focused on driving down cost per token because it’s just too damn high. And I personally don’t see a world where AI becomes pervasive without a huge drop in cost token— it’s not sustainable for companies running the models and end users really can’t afford the real costs as they are today. My point being, will this even be necessary in a 12-18 months?

I could totally be missing things or lacking the vision of where this could go but I personally would worry that anything written with this has a very short shelf life.

That’s not to say it’s not useful in the meantime, or not a cool project, more so if there is a longer term vision for it, I think it would be worth calling out.