From the main page: "The Hyper-Performant AI-First Postmodern Zero-Cost Fractal Metacircular Phantom-Typed Auto-Disposing Monadic Event Continuation Language with Semantic Space Lifting and Event Taps" - not sure if this is a joke or not
Hi! I am the owner of this project. It is not a joke; the tagline is meant to make it hard to ignore. The project is highly AI-driven, and that will put a lot of people off. I have decades of "pre AI" professional coding experience if that counts for anything.
The high-perf kernel is just a tiny thing compared to what's coming, we actually already have more interesting features than just high-perf in the language. Small side-effect of being highly metacircular.
If you come join us on Discord, I'll be lazily streaming on Twitch tonight (working mostly on a memory system, I think) and will be happy to answer any Koru-related questions.
Edit: And if you believe in AI so strongly you can't be arsed to write your own articles, I don't see why you wouldn't just ask it to do the (obviously AI generated) optimization in the first place and not worry about the code.
> How This Happened
Full disclosure: this section exists because I was shitposting on X about Lisp being slow.
Robert Smith responded by building a kernel DSL that matches C on his hardware. I got completely schooled. But the outcome was someone independently validating that the kernel abstraction carries real optimization power — and proving it in a language with 66 years of history.
I have learned nothing. The shitposting produced the results. Why would I stop?
... sounds like it's written from the prospective of somebody's agent...?
It was written from the perspective of my AI agent. :) 99% of the content of the site is AI authored. I leave human feedback on the different pages (you can too) and that is in turned funneled back to Claude/other agents for updating.
Claude has a special style of writing that it somewhat hyperbolic. I don't mind it but I can see how it rubs people the wrong way.
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If you come join us on Discord, I'll be lazily streaming on Twitch tonight (working mostly on a memory system, I think) and will be happy to answer any Koru-related questions.
Edit: And if you believe in AI so strongly you can't be arsed to write your own articles, I don't see why you wouldn't just ask it to do the (obviously AI generated) optimization in the first place and not worry about the code.
Edit: from the end of the article
> How This Happened Full disclosure: this section exists because I was shitposting on X about Lisp being slow.
Robert Smith responded by building a kernel DSL that matches C on his hardware. I got completely schooled. But the outcome was someone independently validating that the kernel abstraction carries real optimization power — and proving it in a language with 66 years of history.
I have learned nothing. The shitposting produced the results. Why would I stop?
... sounds like it's written from the prospective of somebody's agent...?
Claude has a special style of writing that it somewhat hyperbolic. I don't mind it but I can see how it rubs people the wrong way.