Show HN: Vibe Prolog

(github.com)

38 points | by nl 2 days ago

5 comments

  • andai 7 hours ago
    What are the odds :) I made this two weeks ago, also with Claude.

    This one's a straight port, paip-python's[0] Prolog interpreter. (Itself based on Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming book, originally in Lisp.)[1]

    https://github.com/a-n-d-a-i/prolog.js

    It was in the web ui, so I expected it to give me a code block, but it spun up a vm, set up a npm project, generated tests... ran them. I was quite surprised.

    Your version is the opposite of mine, in a very good way. Your one is mostly tests! My version's tests are... well, you'll see ;)

    Both are surprisingly short. 700-ish for mine, ~1200-ish for yours (as far as the actual interpreter goes), right?

    That seems like a lot of bang per buck for something as powerful as a Prolog interpreter! I don't know very much about Prolog though, so maybe there's a lot of crucial parts missing here.

    At any rate the original is a teaching device, and the book[1] goes into some length on the limitations of Prolog, both this version and in general.

    [0] Original source in Python: https://github.com/dhconnelly/paip-python

    [1] Original original source in Lisp: https://norvig.github.io/paip-lisp/#/chapter11

  • AdieuToLogic 6 hours ago
    Here's an idea.

    There have been over a dozen commits in the last 2 hours. If you are actually "vibe coding" a Prolog, then post the prompts you have used in the last 2 hours here.

    If it helps to have a specific starting point, commit 7bbe652[0] is as good as any.

    0 - https://github.com/nlothian/Vibe-Prolog/commit/7bbe652eaf0b0...

  • forgotpwd16 2 days ago
    If the project is about testing Claude's capabilities, the prompts will be more interesting to have.
    • nl 2 days ago
      It's not like it's a single shot generation or anything.
      • AdieuToLogic 8 hours ago
        >> If the project is about testing Claude's capabilities, the prompts will be more interesting to have.

        > It's not like it's a single shot generation or anything.

        Since you've submitted a "Show HN: Vibe Prolog" and shared in the repo:

          I was working on something else and as a side effect 
          accidently vibe coded a prolog interpretor on my phone over 
          the weekend.
        
        The GP's observation of the prompts being highly relevant is substantiated. Arguably even more so than the Python code committed.

        Especially since there have been 82 commits in the span of 3 days.

        EDIT:

        And I am really interested in how you "vibe coded" the commit[0] which made this singular change:

           - uv run pytest tests/ttest_additional_builtins.py -v
           + uv run pytest tests/test_additional_builtins.py -v
        
        
        0 - https://github.com/nlothian/Vibe-Prolog/commit/0bf4beba70dea...
  • tmaly 2 days ago
    Have you considered asking for a version in assembly?
    • nl 2 days ago
      Not really. Do you mean targetting assembly output or written in assembly?