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@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-11-02 19:56:09

"Programmers, as users of compilers, experience Wittgenstein’s observation every day; newer programming languages provide more sophisticated ways to express algorithms, thereby expanding the limits of their own programming capacity, LLMs and “vibe coding” notwithstanding."
deprogrammaticaipsum.com/vikra…

Vikram Chandra
There are a lot of different things we could have talked about in the Library section of an edition dedicated to compilers; one obvious choice would have been to talk about the quintessential compiler theory book, the 1986 "Dragon Book" also known as "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. As excellent and Wikipedia-worthy as this one is, that is not the book we will talk about here.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-12-19 14:51:00

What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.
“Well only use it when you’re already an expert!”
None of the people starting their careers using this technology are experts yet, nor will the ever be.
And within some finite amount of time nether will you, the expert, be an expert anymore.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-10-14 11:42:03

from my link log —
A C to Brainfuck compiler written in Rust.
iacgm.pages.dev/posts/c2bf/
saved 2025-10-13 dotat.at/:/OEPJB.html

C? Rewrite it in Brainfuck.
Doing Things Worst People always seem to want to do things well, and when they fail, they tend to blame their tools. So it should come as no surprise that programmers, being somewhat similar to people (and being generally bad at what they do), have a long tradition of growing near-religious zeal for editors, paradigms, code styles, and, of course, programming languages. The bickering never ends, and whatever one person preaches, another considers harmful.