vinext

Ah, that reminded me to check up on these "AI wonder projects". Cursor's Web Browser? Last update 5 months ago: https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender The Claude C compiler? 4 months since any changes: https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler Zero moderation too, nice. https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/264#... CloudFlare's slop NextJS project is still going though. https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext

It is a pity that you can't make an experimental commit on an experimental branch without igniting a fire of delirium through some people who -- if they were able to put their emotional response aside for a minute and could weigh this up on the basis of merit -- would probably agree with the motivations for researching this approach. > if/how hard it’d be to get it to pass Bun’s test suite and be maintainable Every month brings new opportunities to completely abstract the process of porting code with agents, all using linguistics. What an exciting time. For those looking for a similarly interesting (and interestingly similar) example, see Cloudflare's port of Next.js[0], "vinext", from a couple of months ago. It had some teething problems at the start but I'm using it in a few production projects now with minimal issues. [0] - https://git

maybe of interest: https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext (haven't tried it myself)

"I'm also the director in charge of the entire Cloudflare Workers org, almost 80+ people at this point. I'm not just an IC engineer who has to find time to justify continuing to work on this. I can literally put people on it, and I've already been talking to the team about how to do exactly that." -Steve Faulkner https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext/issues/21#issuecomment-...

God speed to the poor souls that have to make it actually work in the long run: "I can say that with some authority. Yes, I'm the one who wrote most of this project, but I'm also the director in charge of the entire Cloudflare Workers org, almost 80+ people at this point. I'm not just an IC engineer who has to find time to justify continuing to work on this. I can literally put people on it, and I've already been talking to the team about how to do exactly that." https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext/issues/21#issuecomment-...

The similarity is to, > You think you'll get better long-term support from an experiment that a single engineer did in his spare time? Linus started it as an experiment. That's a single engineer doing it on his spare time. Do you think Linux doesn't do long-term support right? The one changing the goal post is you. https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext It is MIT licensed. It can be used and maintained by anyone. If it'll get adoption like Linux did, that's different. But the base is there.

...and (again), hello world does not work [1]. the ai slop pr [2] absolutely butchers the fix. anyone foolish enough to switch to this is in for a rough time. details matter! [1] https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext/issues/22 [2] https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext/pull/31/changes#r284987...

This is probably the most interesting AI experiment I've seen yet. Looking through the codebase has me wondering where all the code is. I don't know if anyone has had the displeasure of going through the next.js codebase, but I estimate it's at least two orders of magnitude more code than this reimplementation. Which makes me wonder, does it actually handle the edge cases or does it just pass the tests. Like compare the two form implementations for example. Vinext is a completely different implementation compared to what the Next.js version does. Is their behaviour actually the same? The rewrite looks incredibly naive. https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/b8cbaad24ca66ec673a7b... https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext/blob/main/packages/vine... Either way, pretty impressive.