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I can't recommend Sourcehut enough! The git.sr.ht service is just the tip of the iceberg, though. It also provides you with CI, issue tracking, mailing lists... And it works perfec…

I think the Shadowrun adage is applicable here: "Watch your back, shoot straight, and never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon." Microsoft is the dragon here. Even if it appears frien…

I have a codebase that amounts to several kLOC of C++, available here: https://git.sr.ht/~maelkum/viuavm While I openly admit that parts of it are shoddily written, I also try to a…

I am using this method to a great success at my current job. It leads to always having a clear, well-defined place where you look for changes related to issue XYZ. Support from too…

Probably the latter. The "deadbeef" string as a "random" hexadecimal example is pretty common.

In a true hackerish style, I rolled my own solution: https://github.com/marekjm/issue Back in 2015, I decided that all the issue tracking systems I knew are too heavy-weight. I don…

You mean "The most resilient torrent website in the Galaxy"? The TPB crew was ahead of the times.

> Where Viua stands in terms of performance for both generated code speed and compilation speed? The performance is, frankly, abysmal. At this time you shouldn't use Viua if what y…

Hi, Viua VM's developer here. Sure, compiling a language to a VM with mismatched semantics is not a pleasant experience. Viua's execution model of many processes communicating via …

Hi, Viua VM's developer here. Yeah, the naming of "vector" is unfortunate, I'll give you that. In Viua, a vector is simply a data structure with push, pop, insert, etc. operations …

Viua VM's developer here. That's sort of the point of the VM. Maybe not to become the new Erlang, but to become the new BEAM.

Hi, Viua VM's developer here - I am behind this project. The initial target/goal for me was to create a programming language, but I found it hard to dig into GCC (didn't know about…

Hello everyone, the Viua VM's developer here! If you have any questions, just ask, I will try to answer them. Mind you, I am not the one who posted the VM here. I was specifically …

News at eleven...

Well, yes. He can't. I assume you already know why but, in case you don't, let me put it in simple terms for you: it's easier to create something from scratch than to extend existi…

> The Wallaroo license seems to be non-free, which I think is very unfortunate and a misses an opportunity to be more widely used: (...) Maybe. But then, if they require you to buy…

You know... there's a difference between "(...) with people on ARM, Google, Apple, Blommberg, Sony, IBM, Microsoft's payroll?" and "people on Google payroll". In one case you have …

This is a useful comment. The suggestion to go with an interpreter first if you want to have something in a relatively short amount of time is a good one.

> When i'm debugging/developing/whatevering code that is going to run the same in all supported browsers, (...). Completely off-topic remark: I always find it funny that Web is hai…

Maybe... but not everything can be cancelled. What if you are too late and, say, asynchronous write to a disk was already commited and the data is out of your program and on the dr…

Well, given sufficiently good libraries everything can be written in 10 lines of C.

> Leave me alone, apple. This is my iPad, not yours. That's where you're wrong.