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Someone might be working on an article even worse: list of things that raytracers haven't been written in (yet, regularly updated)

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MySQL raytracer: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222

Or how about: an LLVM backend for CMake.

Calm down Satan.

You calm down, we haven't even brought in WebAssembly yet!

Next thing you know someone will suggest HN with hierarchy for repeated and unrelenting topics. Linux ports on home appliances, ray tracing, vi vs. emacs, launchd vs systemd, walled gardens, .... Oh no, say it isn't so!

Those darn Hackers on hackernews! :)

Hackers works on things which are not trivial.so certainly not a hacker

Darn those non-hackers who don’t work on non-trivial things! :)

those are called software engineers :)

(PS: would that eventually count as "raytracers, written in provocative blog post meme"?)

To pick from a recent HN thread: A raytracer has probably not been written yet using only printf. Who wants the glory?

Maybe that'll be my next project. Or instead someone should just write a compiler which outputs a printf format string, perhaps?

There are even Excel ray tracers out there

In fact that’s not even difficult, given how both a raytracer and a spreadsheet are basically functions that assign a value to every cell of a grid.

Well, if you can store data in icmp packets, I bet you can do math, too.

https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

When someone manages to write a raytracer in COBOL I will be truly impressed.

Nothing magic there. It's a full programming language.

Especially if output is in a text based image format like PPM.

Since I don't know COBOL at all, I'm not the one to do that.

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