alt Hacker NewsHere's a prototype parser from 10 months ago, when this was not possible yet:
https://gist.github.com/alganet/23df53c567b8a0bf959ecbc7b689...
Here is me 10 years ago experimenting on parsing stuff with sed:
https://gist.github.com/alganet/542f46865420529c9bd2
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Yes, c89cc.sh was definitely AI-assisted. However, I do carry extensive knowledge of the portable shell that was essential for the AI to complete it.
You'll find tricks inside c89cc.sh that don't exist anywhere, except in other code from me (like the ksh93 fix for local dynamic scoping or the alias/macro read -n1 polyfill).
The WHY is pretty obvious: I want to show that the portable shell is not a toy.
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I didn't mean to imply that you're not capable doing it without LLM. I believe you.
The point I'm trying to make is that the rest of us that don't know bash that well is capable of doing it as well.
This is the new reality we all need to adapt to.
>The WHY is pretty obvious: I want to show that the portable shell is not a toy.
What does that mean? You sat down with the goal of showing that a decades old scripting environment can be used for large projects in production, with all its obscure hacks? I'd say it's more a novelty project made for the fun of it - and that's fine, it's a cool project.
It would be pretty interesting to read a blog post about the making-of: How to write a compiler in portable shell, what parts could be automated and where LLM-coding fell short, what rare tricks were applied, etc...