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> So, while this experiment excites me, it also leaves me feeling uneasy. Building this compiler has been some of the most fun I’ve had recently, but I did not expect this to be anywhere near possible so early in 2026

What? Didn’t cursed lang do something similar like 6 or 7 months ago? These bombastic marketing tactics are getting tired.

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Do you not see the difference between a toy language and a clean room implementation that can compile Linux, QEMU, Postgres, and sqlite? (No, it doesn't have the assembler and linker.)

That's for $20,000.

people have built compilers for free, with $20000 you can even a couple of devs for a year in low income countries.

No? That was a frontend for a toy language calling using LLVM as the backend. This is a totally self-contained compiler that's capable of compiling the Linux kernel. What's the part that you think is similar?

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