Building a Sanskrit Dictionary App: An AI-Powered Retrospective
My experience building a Sanskrit Dictionary app showed me how LLMs and Python empowered me, a Swift developer, to work with unfamiliar tools, languages, and systems I once thought were out of reach.
Instead of participating in WWDC this year, I decided to take the “quiet” time to power through and release an app I’ve been working on slowly over the past year, when I graduated the MA Sanskrit Studies program from Manipal University in India. This post won’t go into the details of Sanskrit dictionary design or user experience (I’ve covered those here…