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Re:Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust by xodn348 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @07:25PM (#47382421)
Ha, neat trick. But macro substitution and a purpose-built language are very different — Han has a full pipeline (lexer → parser → AST → interpreter + LLVM codegen) designed around Korean from the ground up.

Error messages, REPL, LSP hover docs are all in Korean. You can't get that from #define 만약 if.

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Re:Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust by water_badger on Saturday March 14, 2026 @07:30PM (#47382446)
yeah, making a whole language is way more impressive!

anecdotally it is also interesting to use with ai because apparently it is "harder to be on autopilot" based on a huge pre-existing corpus of code when you write it in a different language. could activate different reasoning regions somehow.

(i just appreciate what can be trivially accomplished in c even if it's kind of janky after spending way too much time in the JS preprocessor mines...)

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