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ModernMechtoday at 3:53 PM1 replyview on HN

I noticed the project is less than a month old, and you've generated over 300k lines of code here. I'm guessing most of this was written by agents, yes?

I'm asking because your goal is to make it production ready, so what are you doing to assure people this is more than just another vibe coded language (of which there are countless examples by now)?


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ivov_devtoday at 4:56 PM

Thanks for asking! The core of the compiler should be close to 50k LoC, with most of the rest being tests. The project is much older than git history suggests - I started a fresh repository for the initial release after several months of experiments and false starts to find the right direction. LLMs certainly helped e.g. with mechanical tasks like generating tests and refactors where changes cascaded throughout the pipeline, and I also relied on them to understand Hindley-Milner type inference, Lindig for the formatter, and Maranget for exhaustiveness checking.

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