nithinbekal
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Comment · 5 months ago
I've been having a lot of fun building my own programming language [1]. Getting to the point where you can write programs in your own language was surprisingly easy.
The language, Sapphire, is Ruby inspired, so the most interesting part is digging into the internals of the latter when I'm trying to figure out how something should work.
Comment · 6 months ago
A Ruby-inspired typed programming language called Sapphire: https://github.com/sapphire-project/sapphire
I was reading the fantastic Crafting Interpreters book, and been wondering what it would be like to design a language from scratch. I really enjoy using Sorbet with Ruby, so wanted to design a small language with Ruby's object model, and a gradual type system.
Despite not knowing much programming language theory, I was able to make a surprising amount of progress over a couple of weekends using Claude Code, including building a simple version manager for the language - https://github.com/sapphire-project/facet
Comment · 9 months ago
Thank you!
Comment · 9 months ago
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Comment · 10 months ago
> Four hundred and sixty books is not a scale problem. Knowing when to delete working code is not something an AI can decide for you.
This is such a key thing I remind myself when I build apps like this for myself. I have a similar app that has a page with 900-odd ratings, and another with 550 owned books. I decided that I won't bother with infinite scroll or complex search and filtering until my browser can no longer handle rendering that data. "Find in page" works well enough for me for now.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sorbet now supports inline RBS signatures, which I find a lot more readable. If you use VS code with Ruby LSP, the syntax highlighting is pretty great for the signatures too.
Comment · 1 year ago
I replaced it with a tiny app that I built for myself, that just has the features of Pocket that I was using.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wouldn't that be too similar to NoMethodError? I recently came across the idiom in Smalltalk, where you would call subclassResponsibility:
someMethod:
self subclassResponsibility
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