Porting python-semver to Go on a phone, an old PC, and 41 hours
I'm Krishna, 18, in Class 12 prepping for JEE. When PORT MORTEM 2026 showed up, I didn't have a laptop for it. What I had was a Samsung A05 with Termux, and an old Core 2 Duo PC running Linux Mint Xfce that I could only get to the next morning.. But I really wanted to participate in a Hackathon, So my plan became: start on the phone doing whatever needs zero compute, move to the PC once I could sit at it, and don't pick a repo that punishes me for being resource constrained.
I picked python-semver. It parses and compares version strings like 1.2.3-alpha.1. No I/O, no state, just numbers and string rules.. It was also easy to understand, i.e. easy to get what this even does. The hackathons own examples pointed at node-semver as a good target for exactly this reason, python-semver is basically its Python sibling, and Python is the language I actually know well from every other project I've built.
Track: Open Pair, since Python to Go isn't one of the official pairings.
I did created the folder and all from my phone and used git from Termux to push the folder and asked Claude for what will I need to do, to prove the fuzzing and how to make a hashmap(my first time doing so!), after getting that, i added it to the push, also i generated that Personal Access Token (PAT) for 30 days, copied it and pinned it into my clipboard.
