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Vibe Prolog

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Like a lot of people I got the $250 Claude Code credit and didn't use it up.I decided to try to use it up over the weekend using (mostly) my phone and vibe coded a Prolog interpreter.Now I'm seeing how far I can push it.

HN · launched Nov 19, 2025 · 44 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: programming languages and interpreters · 161 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes The author literally vibe-coded this experimental Prolog interpreter over a weekend using Claude Code and phone prompts; Prolog parsers and unification engines are well-documented standard computer science projects.

Discussion

15 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: SWI-Prolog, paip-python (Norvig's PAIP), prolog.js

Concerns raised: Prompts not publicly documented or verifiable, Unclear how much was actually AI-generated vs. hand-coded, Missing features compared to standard Prolog implementations, Completeness and correctness of interpreter unknown

Feature requests: Assembly output option

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 441 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #94 of 442 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 19 days after the earliest competitor.

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