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I like compilers. I don't like unnecessary abstraction.
Build what you use & use what you build™
2026 check out the work I didn't write!
2036 how I've written 200 lines in this ancient Latin called C
I'm not sure what problem it actually solves or aims at solving other than being cool?
Visual orientation does matter in UX of the real world, video game worlds and to some degree operating systems, is this the goal?
You can improve it by giving a reason for people to want to adopt it. That is bring novel ideas and push the envelope.
As is, it's a very impressive homework.
How's FFI with it? Can we just link any C lib?
I imagine we're 5 years away of "Make your own OS, language, compiler, VM and game in 12 minutes, 36 seconds. Extra points if you gave yourself a stroke."
PS: 2014
So seeing it done on the web actually makes a lot of sense.
Also there is the VC money problem with Zed, at some point, that money will want returns on every dollar spent.
I remember running windows95 overnight so that it could be a "server".
The next morning, moving the mouse was making the harddrive go nuts, it was paging just by moving the cursor!
Memory leak galore.
This makes me want to run linux as my daily driver! [1]
[1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/blob/master/Screensho...
Honestly I've never owned any other laptops than thinkpads and macbooks. Every other laptop I've ever touched in a computer shop left me with "eww".
I've used OpenBSD on laptops before and it was _fine_. I thought they primarily target servers. This feels like laptop specific improvements. Perhaps to the benefits only to those developing OpenBSD.
Never got around to it, but this is clever.
It was a pure fluke that it got discovered _this early_.
All I had was a thick book in a language I didn't speak yet.
No internet, no friends to bounce it with. Infinite time.
Good times.
I've been working on my free time on a tui code editor in the same vein eventually with make and lldb built in.
But if you're serious about reducing carbon waste, don't make visitors download 7.5MB to load the webpage.
we all want something.
Do you have a good source of documentation regarding QBE?
I tried to use it in the past and it was a PITA as I was left basically helpless. I don't do the discord thing.
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