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That is perilously close to the usual:

"AI DID EVERYTHING IN A DAY"

"How do you know it works?"

"... it just looks like it does"

Like when I ask AIs to port sed to java, and it writes test cases ... running sed on a CLI and doesn't implement the full lang spec no matter how much prompting I give it.

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Well, at least the emitted bytecode validates with javap and a lot of stuff definitely runs on real jvm.

I think the criticisms are too often dismissed as moving the goalposts or ignorant of potential, but short of recreating the active open bugs in Java, you've created a different thing whose differences have to be managed and it is unclear how helpful that may be despite the working implementations of subsets.

If I (or someone else) can use it as a start point in bootstrap process - that's fine with me. This is not supposed to be a top-tier compiler. Essentially, it needs to be able to build ANT.

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