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▲ verdverm 6 hours ago

people have forgotten how useful deterministic code generation is (and will remain)

When the Go team ported the original compiler from C to Go, they wrote a program that did ~99% of the work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIE5nV5fDwA

https://go.dev/talks/2014/c2go.slide#18

▲verdverm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

it occurs to me how much better these endeavors might go if the prompt was

"write a program to transpile A to B" instead of "port A to B"