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From Abidjan to 250 Million: The Deblo.ai Story
96 web sessions + 20 mobile sessions in 6 weeks. 24+ tables, 100+ endpoints, 24 AI tools, 101+ advisors. The complete story of building Deblo.ai from Abidjan.
#001 -- Why We Built a Programming Language From Scratch
Why Juste A. GNIMAVO and AI CTO Claude built FLIN, a programming language replacing 47 technologies, from Abidjan.
101 AI Advisors: Professional Intelligence for Africa
60+ specialized AI advisors across 14 categories: SYSCOHADA accountants, OHADA lawyers, tax specialists. How we built professional intelligence for Africa.
Organizations: Families, Schools, and Companies on One Platform
Multi-tenant organizations with shared credit pools, join codes, access codes for phoneless students, and role-based membership for families, schools, and companies.
Six Languages, One Platform: i18n for Africa
French, English, Arabic (with RTL), Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish. How we built internationalization for a continent with hundreds of languages.
#002 -- 47 Technologies Replaced by One Language
FLIN replaces 47 technologies -- React, Next.js, Express, Prisma, Redux, and more -- with one unified language.
#011 -- Session 1: Project Setup and 42 Keywords
Session 1 of building FLIN: project setup, 42 keywords, 60+ token types, and the first lines of a language compiler.
#015 -- Hindley-Milner Type Inference in a Custom Language
How FLIN uses Hindley-Milner type inference to determine types without annotations -- implemented in Rust.
#016 -- Code Generation: From AST to Bytecode
How FLIN's code generator transforms the AST into bytecode: opcodes, constant pool, and view instructions.
#021 -- Building a Stack-Based Virtual Machine in Rust
How we built FLIN's stack-based virtual machine in Rust: execution loop, value types, and call frames.
#035 -- Pattern Matching: From Switch to Match
How we designed FLIN's pattern matching -- from simple value matching to exhaustive checking on tagged unions, and the Rust implementation that powers it all.
#036 -- Tagged Unions and Algebraic Data Types
How we brought algebraic data types to FLIN -- generic enums with associated data, Option<T>, Result<T, E>, and the Rust implementation of tagged unions.