[ot][crazy][spam] present post-language software: thoughts around debugging code generated by human text

Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many gmkarl at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 08:05:42 PST 2022


What's being big for code completion is short models that can generate
snippets of code.

It wouldn't be that hard to use these models in some way where
software still has large structure, but no longer has a particular
defined language.

Software developers would write text in whatever form they feel like,
to describe each component of the software. A compiler then processes
the text into code on whatever runtime is of interest. You could do
this today with a translation stage.

What's interesting is that it could also generate debugging symbols
and line numbers. You could open up the binary in gdb, and step
through your human text, compare it to disassembly, watching variables
change and functions get spawned. You could follow the instruction
pointer through different sets of human text.

You could establish a coding norm where your text is clear and
logical, and diagnose bugs by looking for logical conditions, like
normal.

But most people wouldn't do that and debugging would then be a
nightmare unless an interim form was used.


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