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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
I love the idea! I’m glad you did this.

What about something like clojure? It’s already pretty succinct and Claude knows it quite well.

Plus there are heavily documented libraries that it knows how to use and are in its training data.

>>tyre+Fa
Thats an excellent point, it was a hard choice for me to say no translations at this point. But definitely can think about this as a design choice at the byte code / compiler level as this evolves.

Do jump in to contribute, these are amazing thoughts.