"A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs" on the frontpage of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520807

Oh sounds nice and lightweight, good to have more allocator options

Oh wait this is 10k lines long and one commit and this person's first project

Oh look so many parentheses it makes me, a lisper, feel overwhelmed https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/master/spaces.c#L4713

So tired of bumping into slop everywhere

A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs | Hacker News

@cwebber tangent, isn’t LISP specifically hard to generate for LLMs because of the parenthesis situation
@thomasfuchs apparently they've gotten a lot better at paren balencing