Comment by greenavocado
14 hours ago
No, the question is now: "How much human mental momentum, ego, and investment is there in and behind any particular project or its forks?"
14 hours ago
No, the question is now: "How much human mental momentum, ego, and investment is there in and behind any particular project or its forks?"
I for one would be demotivated. Why maintain an official compiler that's not even half as fast as the vibe-coded one?
"Just" publish the language specs and be done.
These ports are borrowing large parts of the architecture, algorithms, and data structures from the official implementation.
I don't think a spec would facilitate them at such a low effort level and cost.
You need the experience of building and maintaining a compiler to make a great language spec. The tsrs team specifically said they don't want to be trying to change the spec.
Because its impossible to stay motivated working on non trivial project when AI is running the show. Its the last thing Id want to do, its soul sucking and the code is terrible. Remember these guys have poured years of actual work, not slop into tsgo. You sloppers wouldnt understand that.
> Why maintain an official compiler that's not even half as fast as the vibe-coded one?
Because at the end of the day, someone has to actually care and put in effort, even if the thing is machine generated, because it can go off the rails.