Jesse: “Yo Copilot, if you were going to write a soundly typed language with managed effects that compiles to JavaScript, which language would you choose to write the compiler in?”
Copilot: :: Recommends Haskell, OCaml, ReasonML, and Rust with a list of various good pro’s/con’s. ::
Jesse: “Why not Zig?”
Copilot: :: Lists a large list of pro’s/con’s as to why not ::
Jesse: :: notices one of the tradeoffs is Zig’s lack of garbage collection, and Managed Effects / Monads means lots of memory usage, and constant churn, resulting in a need for Garbage Collection ::
“Zig is compiling to JavaScript, which means the runtime is in JavaScript, which means you don’t need to care about garbage collection in Zig. Does that change anything about your previous summary?”
Copilot :: describes why the lack of GC is no longer a con, but still cites the other, good reasons, as to why it’s not a good choice ::
Human in the Loop my foot, more like requires a “non-moron to read pages of good prose looking to remove parts intermingled with dangerous hallucinations”. I’m a map function for filtering bs via me being a RAG who knows what the heck he’s talking about, with a larger Context Window.
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