Bend2 launches tomorrow: Victor Taelin's 'post-AGI' language ditches interaction nets for speed
Birchlabs · x · 2026-09-17
Victor Taelin, creator of HVM and Bend, says Bend2 may launch tomorrow and explains its design philosophy.
- He frames Bend2 as "the best possible language design for a post-AGI economy"
- Interaction nets are dropped: he couldn't make them as fast as lower-order variants on everyday hardware, so Bend2 is pragmatic, not idealistic
- Those expecting a Haskell-like lambda calculus engine will be disappointed — it's closer to C in spirit
- Background: Taelin started programming at 11, helped build Ethereum, and spent a decade on PL theory, building Kind, HVM, and Bend1 along the way
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