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Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

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It was named after the Jacquard machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine), a precursor to Babbage's Analytical Engine (and punch cards).The result reused a lot of existing ideas but combined them in what I found to be an interesting way.

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External/world effects are visible in function signatures, and the runtime requires explicit permission to touch the filesystem, network, etc.

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And since code is given a content-addressed semantic identity internally, renames and formatting changes don't...

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