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bendc

A self-hosting compiler for Bend 2, written in Bend 2.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 23 upvotes (top 35%) · 0 views

Niche: programming language compilers · 77 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • bend
  • bootstrapping
  • c
  • compiler
  • functional-programming
  • programming-language
  • +1 more

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Could you build this?

No Creating a self-hosting compiler for a specialized parallel functional language (Bend/HVM) requires theoretical computer science expertise in compiler architecture, type systems, and interaction combinators.

What it would actually take: Building a self-hosting Bend compiler requires implementing an AST parser, lexer, type checker/inference engine, optimization passes, and a code generator targeting Higher-Order Virtual Machine (HVM) interaction nets, all written in Bend itself. This demands deep academic/systems expertise in functional programming compilers, lambda calculus, and massive parallelism.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 4107 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1399 of 4108 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Quokka · hn · 2026-09-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • Jik · hn · 2026-11-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • mistatic · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • sword · github · 2026-09-11 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Tonbo · hn · 2025-12-17 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • RCE-POCKET-POC-for-PHP2SHELL · github · 2026-10-21 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • NeuralScript · hn · 2026-05-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Dowe · hn · 2026-07-27 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.58

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