Comment by chilipepperhott
8 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.
8 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.
> Was the conversion assisted?
Yes. Comment by mold's author:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1w45j6n/comment/p7ac5...
He decided to use LLM assistance exactly because he's an extremely competent guy.
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.
Assisted, yes. Claude is a coauthor for some of the commits and I think he also said that explicitly. Vibe-coded, he claims not.