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Bend

https://bend-lang.com/
58•nicolas-siplis•43m ago

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boxed•23m ago
A single commit in github, and the compiler isn't there anyway. Where is the compiler?
robinhouston•3m ago
I’m just looking at it for the first time myself, but isn’t the compiler in https://github.com/bendlang/bend/blob/main/bend2/comp.ts ?
tyushk•22m ago
Victor Taelin's work (HVM) got me interested in interaction combinators as a compilation target. I'm now working on an implementation as part of my Uni research. Cool to see Bend 2.0 release!
AlexErrant•20m ago
https://github.com/bendlang/bend

...did they just squash the repo to 1 commit for v2.0.4? Why? Yall should know that in this age of AI trust is the real currency... and nuking your history is one hell of a way to raise eyebrows.

> Enjoy bug-free, fast vibe-coded apps! Hints: ask it to write laws for whatever should never break, and to parallelize everything you want running fast. Bend is young: if anything goes wrong, ask it to open an issue.

Emphasis mine. I don't want to be snarky but like... come on.

Banditoz•4m ago
GitHub shows 44 contributors. 41 distinct users have merged pull requests.

...so now their work has been reduced to nothing?

IshKebab•17m ago
Interesting... But I don't think formal software verification is going to be the answer (is that what this is? Kind of unclear.)

It's too difficult and doesn't scale well to many real world programs - how do you formally verify Facebook?

We'll probably be stuck with normal testing and at least skimming code for a while.

gr_norm•12m ago
Is EC2 real-world enough? From June:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-isolation-eng...

And for the PQ parts of Apple's crypto libraries, from May:

https://security.apple.com/blog/formal-verification-corecryp...

Similar from Microsoft:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/verifying-rust...

garrisonj•13m ago
The issue is I’ll have to vibecode all the laws and the laws could be wrong.
futurisold•11m ago
Words of wisdom.
LightMachine•5m ago
true
v9v•9m ago
[delayed]
LightMachine•7m ago
Hi, I'm the author.

HN staff: someone posted before me. Could we change the title to "Bend - a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs"?

Everyone: feel free to ask any question, but I'd be highly appreciative if you could be a bit civilized and respectful this time. I've worked on this for 1 year, nearly 16h/day, 7 days a week, and I'm giving it for free. You need not to use it. So, I'd be thankful if you could point occasional failures politely rather than throwing me in a lava pit.

Thank you!

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