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krmmalik • today at 8:10 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I read the entire manifesto thinking the discourse about a code execution model would lead to a revelation that this is a model that can reduce bugs in code in realtime and make sure the code runs to the original spec or blueprint. Instead it turned out to be about a model that keeps on optimising code that can go faster and faster over time. That's very exciting in its own right, don't get me wrong, but I was really starting to hope this would be about creating code that breaks less etc.

Maybe it means both but perhaps the emphasis is on speed.


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laginimaineb • today at 9:47 PM

Yes, CEMs can also help reduce bugs. To give an example, we found several memory safety bugs in core CPython code, through our formalisation. We'll release more details on that soon.

f0e4c2f7 • today at 9:17 PM

For the first thing you're talking about check out bend.

https://github.com/bendlang/bend