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On Sunday, 11 October 2026 at 23:16:07 UTC, strawberry9 wrote:
> Your a bit behind the times Walter;-)
>
> I got AI to write a how language specification and compiler 
> .etc... etc.. in less that a week ( 
> https://github.com/strawberry9/CobaltC )
>
> Can you imagine how long that would have taken a human (or more 
> correctly, a 'team' of humans, to complete).It's only cost me 1 
> months subscription so far.

I'll add that I "wrote" a major language addition in a couple 
weeks with AI, whereas it would've taken me months otherwise.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/23744

We're only at the beginning of a massive explosion in the speed 
at which languages and features can be iterated on. In 5-10 years 
I think the programming language landscape will look completely 
unrecognizable.