Please don't post drive-by dismissals to HN. We're hoping for better than that here.

Unorthodox creative approaches are particularly vulnerable to this kind of thing and deserve much better.

I thought about doing this, but 1) I have zero experience with neural networks, and 2) I think "convert handwriting to code" would work better with something like APL, which has more distinct symbols.

That said, having an APL IDE that had pen input would be a really cool idea.