Re:Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using S...
by amlug on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:31PM
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Hey smasher164,
thanks for bringing up the concern. I am proggeramlug (or amlug, either way), Ralph, founder of perry.
Yes, Perry is heavily AI-assisted - similar to the Bun to Rust port is too. Your concern is real and I don't claim to have all the answers for that.
I do know that AI is much better at finding bugs when it comes to compilers than most humans will ever be. Decoding bytecode and knowing what it should be is nothing humans are good at - AI does it trivially.
So yes, lots of AI, but this is not a "vibe-coded" slop project either. I have decades of experience in programming (native) and so I'm quite confident that this will work out well - but I totally see your skepticism.
thanks for bringing up the concern. I am proggeramlug (or amlug, either way), Ralph, founder of perry.
Yes, Perry is heavily AI-assisted - similar to the Bun to Rust port is too. Your concern is real and I don't claim to have all the answers for that.
I do know that AI is much better at finding bugs when it comes to compilers than most humans will ever be. Decoding bytecode and knowing what it should be is nothing humans are good at - AI does it trivially.
So yes, lots of AI, but this is not a "vibe-coded" slop project either. I have decades of experience in programming (native) and so I'm quite confident that this will work out well - but I totally see your skepticism.