johnecheck 2 days ago

The author should provide their definition of 'language'. I suspect that my definition is much broader.

In my eyes, such a subset of JSON absolutely can be a language in its own right. Indeed, I'd consider the idea of a usable computation model without a language an impossibility.

zem 2 days ago

very interesting project! the docs don't use the phrase "virtual machine"; i wonder if they don't consider it one, and if so, what the distinction is.

mcphage 2 days ago

Interesting, but the page says the project is in retirement.

pipeline_peak 2 days ago

I know this spoils the fun but couldn’t u just ask an AI to write your language engine?

Edit: based on my -2 karma, some of you guys don’t sound very open minded.

  • shakna 2 days ago

    Buulding a VM is not a beginner task. You can get going if you have some basic understanding of various things, but getting anything half decent tends towards being a research project.

    e.g. Scheme, Lua, etc.

    AI, as it stands, screws up the basics, let alone something if this scope. It has no formal reasoning. A virtual machine is a formal reasoning engine.

    • pipeline_peak 2 days ago

      > AI, as it stands, screws up the basics, let alone something if this scope

      Do you have examples?

      • Novosell a day ago

        Ask the LLM for examples of LLMs fucking up on simple tasks. Either it succeeds, proving the point, or fails, also proving the point.

        I had both GPT-4o and llama3.1, through duck.ai, make up kscreen-doctor commands the other day. Commands that were easily formatted by simply looking at the output of kscreen-doctor --help.