Strongly disagree. I too thought that it would be easy to implement a new language in 1-2 years. I started the current Quxlang codebase (under a different name) on Dec 27, 2022. In 2026, hundreds of commits and hundreds of thousands of lines of code later, I still don't have a feature complete language.

I also rewrote the syntax, mainly because C++ parsing is a nightmare... Although my choice was very different...

C++ cannot evolve easily without breaking backwards compatibility.

I started Quxlang because I saw the writing on the wall for C++. Doesn't mean C++ isn't good, but it has issues and needs improvement.

Somehow I managed to implement working modules, C++ doesn't seem to have that yet, although the C++ build system is horribly broken.

We'll have to see how it compares when it's more complete and ready to use. I don't have oop/inheritance yet which is also important for a C++ alternative.

But anything to do with compiler development tends to leave the AI spinning its wheels for quite a while.

Edit: Checked the time on that one, I confused it with Compress taking 3+ hours for 1 prompt and another couple of hours each for the next few prompts... Cortado was still well over 1 hour for the initial prompt though...

Which I think brings up an important question, is it okay to take short work breaks to send instructions to AI working on your personal projects during work hours?

Do any employers have policies around this? And how does it interact with legal standards?

Are the rules around work-product well suited to the modern AI age?

Does it matter if I'm hourly vs salaried?

Should we do the same thing for work (asking work AI to do things occasionally during personal time)?

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Daylight savings time is bad for our bodies particularly in the winter.

It also makes noon even more out of sync with solar noon.

Air Conditioners do not produce a net heating effect unless you power them by burning fossil fuels.

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For example, considering a sequence like [5, 4, 7, 8, 2]

What is the 4th element? 8, but if I asked what is the "0th element", you would answer 5, but that is the 1st element. The document introduces the terminology of the zerid element (0id element), oneid element (1id), etc. to handle 0-based indexing.

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If it was just because it was cheap, we'd also see similar fraud from Mexican or Vietnamese sellers, but I don't really see that.

It's great to say your software is higher quality, but the question I have is whether or not is is higher quality with the same or similar features, and second, whether the better quality is known to the customers.

It's the same way that I will pay hundreds of dollars for Jetbrains tools each year even though ostensibly VS Code has most of the same features, but the quality of the implementation greatly differs.

If a new company made their IDE better than jetbrains though, it'd be hard to get me to fork over money. Free trials and so on can help spread awareness.