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Clear is a new programming language designed to unify specification and implementation within a single file to reduce drift between documentation and behavior.
What: Clear creates a single artifact for both human developers and agents to read, ensuring that the code itself acts as the definitive documentation. It is designed to be directly executable by agents and portable across various targets.
Why it matters: This approach addresses the long-standing problem of 'documentation rot,' where code and specifications diverge, by treating the document as the primary source of truth for autonomous execution.
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- Drift: The discrepancy that occurs over time when software code updates are not reflected in corresponding documentation.
Original article
Clear is a programming language where the specification and implementation are in the same file. There's no translation step or drift between docs and behavior as they are the same artifact. Clear is built for agents to read and execute while being readable by everyone on the team. It compiles to any target without any change in the spec.
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