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by SergeAx 20 days ago
I still think that generating a Zig-Rust transpiler would be a better approach, given all the LLM quirks, including the ability to just /goal the model with binary-identical LLVM bytecode.

However, an open-sourced tool like that would've greatly harmed the Zig ecosystem and community.
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ivanjermakov 20 days ago
> would've greatly harmed the Zig ecosystem and community

People looking to abandon the ship first chance are unlikely to contribute much to the ecosystem and community.

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leecommamichael 20 days ago
Go famously used machine translation to remove dependency from C. It's a nice way to retain structural familiarity with the target language. I imagine they could've saved a large portion of that $165,000 using this route. Hard to say for certain, though. You wouldn't want to scope that transpiler at "being able to transpile all programs generally," and so scoping the project does become a serious task.
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