Purr obviously did not think C was purrfect.I hope Purr asks for a language easily installed by an operating system package.I think some additional software will be required.
Rather than wait for another impractical request, I decided to negotiate. That constant purring must have distracted me from the danger.
There's a nice kitty, I began, how about Rust. Purr blinked, continued purring and replied Hare.
https://harelang.org/
It looked interesting, especially as it does not use the LLVM or GCC backends. However, I suspected an ulterior motive and feared for that cute bunny.
Excellent choice I continued, I think Free Pascal is similar and the mascot is a cat like you.
https://www.freepascal.org/
The purring stopped and Purr blinked again.
I tried one more time. How about Go?
https://go.dev/
Luckily Purr started purring again. The kitten went on for a time and then replied Swift.
https://www.swift.org/
I suddenly worried the next choice would have a seafood mascot, but then remembered my first suggestion had been Rust.
Considering how much trouble I had building the Swift runtime a few years ago, Hare was starting to look reasonable. I reflected on the moral "hare today goon tomorrow" and gave in.
I wonder what the chatbots will say about Hare in the code reviews.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Sun Nov 30, 2025 8:01 pm