But here's the Ruby version of one of the scripts:
BEGIN {
result = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
.filter {|x| x % 2 == 0 }
.map {|x| x * x}
.reduce {|acc,x| acc + x }
puts "Result: #{result}"
}
So here's a more typical Awk-like experience:
ruby -pe '$_.upcase!' somefile.txt ($_ has the whole line)
ruby -F, -ane '$F[1]' # Extracts the second field field -F sets the default character to split on, and -a adds an implicit $F = $_.split.
Purely interpretive implementation of the kind you'd write in school, still, above and beyond anything I'd have any right to complain about.
jslike (acorn based parser)
https://github.com/artpar/jslike
https://www.npmjs.com/package/jslike
wang-lang ( i couldn't get ASI to work like javascript in this nearley based grammar )
https://www.npmjs.com/package/wang-lang
We do not know whether the implied grammar is conflict free. We don't know anything.
It certainly does not look like enjoying the conceptual part.
I mean, he's not solving the puzzles with AI. He's creating his own toy language to solve the puzzles in.
Anyway so far I haven't been able to get any nice result from any of the obvious models, hopefully they're finally smart enough.
I was dreaming of a JS to machine code, but then thought, why not just start from scratch and have what I want? It's a lot of fun.
You should be able to whip up a Lexer, Parser and compiler with a couple weeks of time.
If I want to go from Bristol to Swindon, I could walk there in about 12 hours. It's totally possible to do it by foot. Or I could use a car and be there in an hour. There and back, with a full work day in-between done, in a day. Using the tool doesn't change what you can do, it speeds up getting the end result.
Automating one of the fun parts of CS is just weird.
So with this awesome "productivity" we now can have 10,000 new toy languages per day on GitHub instead of just 100?
I have implemented an interpreter for a very basic stack-based language (you can imagine it being one of the simplest interpreters you can have) and it took me a lot of time and effort to have something solid and functional.
Thus I can absolutely relate to the idea of having an LLM who's seen many interpreters lay out the ground for you and make you play as quickly as possible with your ideas while procrastinating delving in details till necessary.
Anyway, all it will do is stop you being able to run as well as you used to be able to do when you had to go everywhere on foot.
If neither you not anyone else can fix it, without more cost than making a proper one?