Why? It is 500 lines of pretty basic code. You can port it if you don't like C++ to any language, assuming you understand what it is.
It does look a bit AI generated though
It does look a bit AI generated though
These days, when I hear a project owner/manager describe the project as a "clean room reimplementation", I expect that they got an LLM [0] to extrude it. This expectation will not always be correct, but it'll be correct more likely than not.
[0] ...whose "training" data almost certainly contains at least one implementation of whatever it is that it's being instructed to extrude...
It seems there is a signal (here on HN) that coding LLM would be really good at mass porting c++ code to plain and simple C to remove the c++ kludge dependency.
There's also the matter of copyright laundering and the still-unsettled issue of license laundering, but I understand that a very vocal subset of programmers and tech management gives zero shit about those sorts of things. [0]
[0] I would argue that -most of the time- a program that you're not legally permitted to run (or distribute to others, if your intention was to distribute that program) is just as incorrect as one that produces the wrong output. If a program-extrusion tool intermittently produces programs that you're not permitted to distribute, then that tool is broken. [1]
[1] For those with sensitive knees: do note that I said "the still-unsettled issue of license laundering" in my last paragraph. Footnote zero is talking about a possible future where it is determined that the mere act of running gobs of code through an LLM does not mean that the output of that LLM is not a derived work of the code the tool was "trained" on. Perhaps license-washing will end up being legal, but I don't see Google, Microsoft, and other tech megacorps being very happy about the possibility of someone being totally free to run their cash cow codebases through an LLM, produce a good-enough "reimplementation", and stand up a competitor business on the cheap [2] by bypassing the squillions of dollars in R&D costs needed to produce those cash cow codebases.
[2] ...or simply release the code as Free Software...
That goes for a lot of comments here accusing each other of being a bot.
I feel like we've known internet trust at its highest and it can only go one way now.