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FormerLabFredon Show HN: FPGA soft-core of the Saab Viggen's 1963 airborne computer

Some background reading:

https://www.saab.com/newsroom/stories/2017/december/datasaab...

PDF:

http://www.datasaab.se/Papers/Articles/Viggenck37.pdf

Now we got it on a %50-100 FPGA board.

Half the size of a credit card. I guess the original computer onboard was 12-15 kgs

FormerLabFredon Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran

> forever

FormerLabFredon Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran

:) I mean there are still some people alive out there who never saw a web UI when beginning dev. They get a bit nostalgic, missing their 286

It’s fun and it is appreciated by them, and the young ones who are curious

FormerLabFredon Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran

Our modern languages are built on it, and it’s incredibly fast,

so it deserves to be kept alive. We owe a great deal to the people who wrote it in the 1950s I guess

FormerLabFredon Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran

It’s keyboard navigation only, and we got the Bluesky firehose raw straight into the Rust decoder. Or we switch mode to Jetstream with m+EnTER :)

You hit l+ENTER to like a post. If anyone replies from Bluesky, we hit n+ENTER and see the notifs. And so on

Fortransky is 70% Fortran, rest is Rust, C and a tiny Python helper

FormerLabFredon Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran

Fortran will survive the cockroaches even, when the world 404s

FormerLabFredon Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran

You are not the first one to ask :)

We built Cobolsky. Will go public soon. Parallelly too curious on Fortran. The world is better with a Fortran-based social network client in it :)

When we are building the feed composer, in next version, Fortran will be great for the algorithm etc.

Keeping the ancient languages alive. I built some Cobol stuff many years ago. Back at it again. Rusty.

Both Cobolsky and Fortransky looks great on Swordfish90’s cool-retro-term, but we are building our own terminal for Fortransky too. There is a blog post with screenshots over at Patreon/formerlab

Can’t get enough Fortran