[sword-devel] New sword based bible program

Zoltán Kovács kovzol at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 03:20:18 EDT 2026


Hi Moses, congratulations, it is nice work.

Moses McKnight <moses at mcktex.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2026. márc. 13., P,
21:46):

> Hi,
>
> I have a new bible program at https://github.com/mozmck/verdad for anyone
> who is
> interested.
>
> I have long used Xiphos (from back when it was gnomesword) and really like
> it,
> so the basic layout of mine is very similar to that.  My motivation to
> build
> this was mostly that I had a number of features I like or wanted and I
> recently
> became interested in trying AI for coding.  Another part of my motivation
> was to
> make something with few and light dependencies, and easy to port to
> windows and
> macOS.
>

I managed to compile it on Ubuntu 24.04 with no difficulty. As far as I
remember, FLTK has good support to be compiled for WebAssembly, so you may
also have a working offline web version very quickly.


> Probably the most unique thing about Verdad is that it was coded almost
> entirely
> by Claude and Codex (mostly Codex) in about 2.5 weeks of my spare time
> telling
> them what to do in plain english.  That includes EVERYTHING including the
> build
> system, packaging, and even the icon.  I did tweak a few lines of code a
> couple
> of times and modified a 24x24 icon myself, but that's about it.
>
> There are several features and changes I still have in mind and want to
> play
> with (not to mention inevitable bugs) but I think it is pretty usable as
> it is.
>

Great! :-)

Best, Zoltan
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