Jon Gjengset
Rust live-coder and OSS tinkerer who loves teaching. I try to maintain a high SNR. Wrote Rust for Rustaceans. At Helsing.ai. Formerly AWS. Co-founded ReadySet. @jonhoo elsewhere. he/him/they
- Recording of our "port avro-tools' Java-based idl-to-json tool to Rust using an LLM" adventure is now on YouTube! We got to an initial working implementation in ~4hrs (though still bugs to iron out in future iterations), which isn't too shabby! Code at github.com/jonhoo/avdl. youtu.be/vmKvw73V394
- Friday 9a UTC (everytimezone.com/s/5903cd46) sounds like a good time for a stream! This time, we'll try to port Avro's IDL-to-JSON tool from Java to Rust (with LLM help), leveraging the fact that their grammar is written using ANTLR to make our job easier. Come join me 🎉 youtube.com/live/NqV_KhD...
- If you don't know Avro, it's Apache's equivalent to Google's Protocol Buffers. See avro.apache.org/docs/1.12.0/....
- As for the LLM bit — I think this is an ideal powercoding (LLM + code review) use-case since we a) have access to the existing Java code and b) there's an infinite supply of trusted tests (the same IDL passed to the Java tool should produce the same JSON). But let's see how it goes!
