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"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)

Strange Loop Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Testing, debugging & developer toolsProgramming language designComputer vision, speech & NLP

What it is

Pokey Rule presents Cursorless, a spoken language designed for editing code by voice, built on tree-sitter parsing with smart structural and simple token-level primitives. The talk is from Strange Loop 2023.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as the best overview of Cursorless, likened to vim with your voice, and relevant to accessibility and voice coding discussions.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “If you want a general overview of cursorless, along with seeing what it looks like in practice, the talk from Strange Loop this year was great”

    General overview of Cursorless with a look at it in practice.

    citruscomputing, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso”

  2. “It's kinda like vim with your voice. Super cool talk here”

    A voice-controlled text editing language, like vim with your voice.

    chamomeal, 2026-05 · Recommendation · in “AI Pointer from DeepMind”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: cursorless, voice coding, tree-sitter, accessibility, language design

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