pseudo

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code translation

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142points
14comments
#243of 2,264 in 2016
Top 11%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.

Idea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful idea for bootstrapping codebases and maintaining multi-language code

    From 2 comments
    • I really like this and think it could be very useful. You're really on a roll, alehander42, with pseudo and hivemind both on the HN front page the same weekend. Regarding pseudo,…
      legutierr on HN
    • Totally awesome! I was just about to make exactly this tomorrow, now I don't need to. My problem is that I would like to generate wrappers for an API, in a variety of popular…
      alextgordon on HN
  • Output looks neat and idiomatic

    From 1 comment
    • I don't get this. Heres Fibonacci[1] in only 74 lines of YAML, or how about some kind of football CLI program[2] in only ~600 lines of YAML. I've got no idea why anyone would use…
      orf on HN

Objections

  • Writing intermediate YAML is verbose and pointless for small outputs

    From 1 comment
    • I don't get this. Heres Fibonacci[1] in only 74 lines of YAML, or how about some kind of football CLI program[2] in only ~600 lines of YAML. I've got no idea why anyone would use…
      orf on HN
  • YAML choice questioned for the AST

    From 1 comment
    • I don't get this. Heres Fibonacci[1] in only 74 lines of YAML, or how about some kind of football CLI program[2] in only ~600 lines of YAML. I've got no idea why anyone would use…
      orf on HN

Requests

  • Support for more languages such as Java, Swift, PHP, Perl, C

    From 1 comment
    • I really like this and think it could be very useful. You're really on a roll, alehander42, with pseudo and hivemind both on the HN front page the same weekend. Regarding pseudo,…
      legutierr on HN

Questions

  • How is testing done to verify generated code compiles and runs

    From 1 comment
    • I really like this and think it could be very useful. You're really on a roll, alehander42, with pseudo and hivemind both on the HN front page the same weekend. Regarding pseudo,…
      legutierr on HN
  • How does it differ from Haxe

    From 1 comment
    • It looks awesome! I really like the idé to write once and compile to everything. However I do not have much experience in this field. How does this differ from the current…
      dosshell on HN

Alternatives named

  • Haxe

    From 1 comment
    • It looks awesome! I really like the idé to write once and compile to everything. However I do not have much experience in this field. How does this differ from the current…
      dosshell on HN
  • Coq to OCaml/Haskell translation

    From 1 comment
    • Coq can be translated to Ocaml and Haskell: https://coq.inria.fr/faq#htoc181 Ocaml can be translated back to Coq: https://github.com/clarus/coq-of-ocaml
      ycmbntrthrwaway on HN

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