40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up. So I spent some weekends asking: what would an intermediate language look like if we stopped pretending humans are the authors?
NERD is the experiment.
Bootstrap compiler works, compiles to native via LLVM. It's rough, probably wrong in interesting ways, but it runs. Could be a terrible idea. Could be onto something. Either way, it was a fun rabbit hole.
Contributors welcome if this seems interesting to you - early stage, lots to figure out: https://github.com/Nerd-Lang/nerd-lang-core
Happy to chat about design decisions or argue about whether this makes any sense at all.
How much of the code is read by humans, though? I think using languages that LLMs work well with, like TS or Python, makes a lot of sense but the chosen language still needs to be readable by humans.
I've never had a good result. Just tons of silent bugs that are obvious those experienced with Python, JS/TS, etc. and subtle to everyone else.