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by tnelsond4 10 days ago
I'm amazed by how in-depth the documentation is. Usually projects struggle to get decent docs. (Unless the docs are LLM generated). I'm not sure what's better, the design or the docs.

Like you said in your backstory, it's an awful shame to work so hard on something and have it get absolutely no attention.

I haven't tried out any of the code yet, but I'm curious enough to maybe try it sometime, especially since it has a robust FFI already. I had just uninstalled rust because I'm more of an old school C guy and don't like writing "safe" code.

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Thank you. I want to be honest about the documentation: I did use AI to help write and organize parts of it.

I'm Thai, and I'm not fluent enough in English to explain a project this large naturally on my own, especially because I wanted to publish it for an English-speaking audience on Hacker News. I mainly used AI to help translate what I meant, improve the wording, and arrange the information into a structure that would feel normal and readable in English.

The language design, implementation, technical decisions, measurements, and the ideas behind the documentation are mine. I reviewed the text and tried to make sure it represented what X actually does, but I honestly don't always know what wording or document structure feels most natural to native English speakers.

I also tried hard to keep it from sounding strange or overly generated, so I'm glad that the documentation was useful to you.