Comment by Aissen

9 hours ago

I expected this to be a multi-months rewrite, not 3 weeks. I almost forgot we live in the agents era now.

Edit: this seems to have been cooking for a while when the first commit dropped: https://github.com/rui314/mold/commit/f41bfcd5c72ca30cce6498...

6 comments

Aissen

Reply
chilipepperhott  6 hours ago

Was the conversion assisted? I get the sense that Mold's author is an extremely competent guy and it would be quite feasible for someone like him to do it on his own.

  • SuperV1234  3 hours ago

    He decided to use LLM assistance exactly because he's an extremely competent guy.

    • ahartmetz  2 minutes ago

      It's also his third(!) time writing a linker: lld, mold 1-2, now mold 3. mold 3 is also supposed to do what he never did before: implement all of the GNU ld features (notably linker scripts, I think it also has some optimization features not available elsewhere) so that it can finally be replaced, never needing it as a fallback anymore.

  • afdbcreid  6 hours ago

    Assisted, yes. Claude is a coauthor for some of the commits and I think he also said that explicitly. Vibe-coded, he claims not.