Deeplearning from Scratch in 1400 Lines In my own Programming Language
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HN · launched Sep 13, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: deep learning frameworks · 48 launches, 0 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
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- Model & infra
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- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Designing and building a custom programming language and writing a deep learning tensor framework from scratch within it requires deep compiler design and numerical computing expertise.
What it would actually take: This project requires designing a programming language grammar, writing a lexer, parser, AST generator, and interpreter or bytecode VM from scratch (in C, Rust, etc.). On top of that, it demands implementing automatic differentiation (autograd), computational graph backpropagation, and linear algebra tensor math from mathematical first principles without existing numerical libraries.
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Competitors mentioned: PyTorch, Julia, Mojo
Competitors
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Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
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