Vibecoding isn't a crime How Distribute Your App on Linux after Flathub refusal

jefurii

Sure it's not a crime but I don't want your vibe-coded shit mingling with my actual code written by actual humans.

spacedcowboy

This is good to know. ‘I’ built a compiler for a language I call ‘xc’, similar to Objective-C but designed to be cross-platform and have less square brackets :). It can run on any of {Windows, Mac, Linux, Zynq} and produce code for any of {Windows, Mac, Linux, Zynq, WASM, iOS, Android, m68k, 6502}. It needs no host-platform tools to compile code, so for example I have a signed binary on my iPhone, written and signed entirely on Linux. The compiler (v 0.61, not the released v0.6) currently produces code that is between 5x and 0.5x the speed of clang when measured at -O3 on both, against ObjC code, which is pretty good for a nascent compiler. The geometric mean of 19 mini-benchmarks comes in at xc being roughly 6% faster than clang. Since there is also a framework and gui-designer under way, I’d like to release it as more than a tar.bz2 file for Linux at some point. Flatpark would seem to be appropriate :) 1: https://compile-xc.org/

Muhammad523

> But the policy doesn't distinguish between someone who prompted an LLM to generate an entire app in five minutes and a developer who used Copilot for autocomplete while writing 90% of the code themselves. How is using autocomplete "Vibecoding" now? I remember y'all that the "definition" for vibecoding requires the "prompter" to not look at a single line of code

feverzsj

Intentional littering is a criminal offence in most places.

Arodex

"Vibecoding isn't a crime" Meanwhile, a few ranks away on HN: "Big AI to humanity: drop dead" "The End Of Upward Mobility – AI is coming for the meritocracy"

graemep

Further evidence that Flatpack does not solve the problem of distributing applications. https://xkcd.com/927/

wildredkraut

Well, there is still AppImage, this might be the right way to go with in this case.

krater23

Why should Flathub accept vibecoded shit. You don't let just anyone who rings the doorbell into your house, either.

sgarland

> One shared that they were flagged for using Claude Code to submit the pull request, not to write the app. Who is opening up an LLM to run git push?!

6yyyyyy

BASED. I'm going to feel a lot better about getting software from Flathub from now on.