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JOPA: Java compiler in C++

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2025-11-23 · latest 2026-02-05

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  1. Pfft, a C compiler. Look at this: https://github.com/7mind/jopa
  2. On hard projects (really hard, like https://github.com/7mind/jopa ), Codex fails spectacularly. The only competition is Claude vs Gemini 3 Pro.
    comment by pshirshov · 2025-12-26 · in Codex vs. Claude Code (today)
  3. It should be doable. This WAS doable: https://github.com/7mind/jopa
    comment by pshirshov · 2025-12-24 · in The port I couldn't ship
  4. By my tests ( https://github.com/7mind/jopa ) Gemini 3 is somewhat better than Claude with Opus 4.5. Both obliterate Codex with 5.1
  5. …engineers. Even with your intelligence you would need years to deliver something like this: https://github.com/7mind/jopa The outcome will be better for sure, but you won't do anything like that in a couple of weeks. Even if you have a…
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    JOPA: Java compiler in C++, Jikes modernized to Java 6 with Claude
    story by pshirshov · 2025-11-23 · 52 comments