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>>gnanag+(OP)
Creator here. This started as a dumb question while using Claude Code: "Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?"

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.

>>gnanag+d
> "Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?" 40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up.

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.

>>wilson+i3
Why do people keep saying LLMs work well with high level scripting languages?

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.

>>sublin+xa
Perhaps they are being more successful in their use of llm's than you are?

>>alienb+qb
Yes "success" as they understand it, and they are always so smug while refusing to show or even discuss the code the LLM produced.

A poor craftsman may blame his tools, but some tools really are the wrong ones for the job.