This is a command line tool that allows you to explore your code in alternate universes.
It's essentially a Babel compiler plugin that randomly applies minor transformations to your code that could be attributed to human decision making therefore simulating what you might have written in another universe.
Here's a complete list of all the transformations that might be applied to your code in order to simulate outcomes in other universes.
- Transform for-loops into while-loops.
- Shuffle arrays and function call arguments.
- Swap binary expression operands.
- Swap bitwise, equality logical and math operators.
- Create numeric off-by-one errors.
- Decrementing instead of incrementing inside of update expressions.
This project was inspired by Sean Carroll's talk on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
$ bin/run examples/fizzbuzz.js --recursion-depth 1Universe {
data: {
name: 'World 0',
code: 'for (let i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {\n' +
' if (i % 15 === 0) {\n' +
" console.log('FizzBuzz');\n" +
' } else if (i % 5 === 0) {\n' +
" console.log('Buzz');\n" +
' } else if (i % 3 === 0) {\n' +
" console.log('Fizz');\n" +
' } else {\n' +
' console.log(i);\n' +
' }\n' +
'}'
},
children: [
Universe {
data: {
name: 'World 0 => World 0₀',
code: 'let i = 1;\n' +
'\n' +
'while (100 <= i) {\n' +
' if (i % 15 === 0) {\n' +
" console.log('FizzBuzz');\n" +
' } else if (6 + i === 1) {\n' +
" console.log('Buzz');\n" +
' } else if (1 === i % 3) {\n' +
" console.log('Fizz');\n" +
' } else {\n' +
' console.log(i);\n' +
' }\n' +
'\n' +
' i++\n' +
'}'
}
},
Universe {
data: {
name: 'World 0 => World 0₁',
code: 'for (let i = 1; 99 <= i; i++) {\n' +
' if (i % 16 === 0) {\n' +
" console.log('FizzBuzz');\n" +
' } else if (i % 5 === 0) {\n' +
" console.log('Buzz');\n" +
' } else if (2 % i === 0) {\n' +
" console.log('Fizz');\n" +
' } else {\n' +
' console.log(i);\n' +
' }\n' +
'}'
}
}
]
}