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aka-rideryesterday at 6:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

Following the recent "Rewriting bun in Rust" I thought to run an experiment which turned out to be success.


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onion2kyesterday at 9:14 PM

Porting something to a language you don't know doesn't seem very helpful to me. You've locked yourself out of doing useful work except with continued application of more AI. Without the ability to verify it, except with even more AI maybe, you're starting on a slippy slope to slop.

If the experiment was "spend 400 bucks to see if it'll work" then that's awesome, and fun, and a cool use of AI. It's impressive that AI can do that.

If it was to make something useful ... has it?

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coder-pmyesterday at 7:41 PM

How much did the verification cost on top? how did you gate it? was it a Go test suite you ran against the Rust or what? I always wonder how ppl are testing these rewrites, rewriting the tests can also lead to bug. I really wonder how reliable are rewrites like that, a 65k lines you didn't actually read. How did you confirm the semantic equivalence, same behaviour?

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