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It's less calibrated but still useful, yea

Reading the transcript of Stalin, Molotov, etc's conversation with Eisenstein was really interesting. Even if you disagree with their analysis and what they're doing, it's clear th…

Thank you for making it free! I've used it on my blog ( https://vgel.me ) forever, since back before I ever would've paid for analytics, and it's been rock-solid the whole time. So…

Oh, we already sequenced it awhile back. As for physical media, that's not exactly what happened... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_001611.1?report=fast...

Oh, interesting--I remember messing around with flags on the stack but was having issues with the WASM analyzer (it doesn't like possible inconsistencies with the number of paramet…

Looks like Schism ( https://github.com/schism-lang/schism ) got part of the way there, but it unfortunately seems to be dead.

I think because it's ambiguous with unary plus (a = +b), since C isn't supposed to have significant whitespace in most circumstances.

Oh, that's neat (funny that they skipped out on similar things to me, like GOTO and structs :-) I didn't see a link to the source in the article, but this seems to be it: https://s…

Maybe not the language choice, but the codegen of this compiler is terrible because of the single-pass shortcuts (for example, it unconditionally loads the result of all assignment…

Well, I set the 500 line budget up front, and that was really as much as I could fit with reasonable formatting. I'll be excited to see your 500 line C compiler supporting all thos…

I actually almost made it a C-- ( https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/download/ppdp.pdf ) compiler, but IIRC the `goto`s made me go with the regular C subset instead.

I think the code is fairly readable! It's formatted with Black (and therefore limited to reasonable line lengths) and well-commented. IMO, being under X lines of code is part of th…

Ooh, this is cool! Using WASM let me avoid writing a register allocator (though I probably would have just used the stack if I had targeted x86/ARM since I wasn't going for speed).…

I'm not sure, haven't looked at the codebases of old compilers in a long time. Definitely a lot of the language is pretty amenable to it, especially if you have unstructured jumps …

Oh, C4 is neat—technically it has me beat since it also implements the VM to run the code—though their formatting definitely takes advantage of long lines :-)

A lot of the reasons for decline cited in the article feel fluffy. "The best washer/dryer depends on who you are"? The Wirecutter always gave alternatives and "upgrade picks". "Peo…

We had superhuman diagnosis systems 50 years ago! > Mycin was never actually used in practice. This wasn't because of any weakness in its performance - in tests it outperformed mem…

> Swing dancing Swing It Seattle? Me and my wife go to the wednesday dances :-)

Yeah, exactly, but to enjoy the small game at that point, I think you need to have an appreciation for small games. I guess it's possible to enjoy a small game as only the core of …

Some people, yeah. But a lot of people only enjoy the game because of complex systems that were added later: redstone, slimeblock machines, building complex farms, gear progression…

I think a lot of it is what types of games or genres you're interested in. Certain games / genres of games work better as small games than others. Like I've worked on a lot of smal…

I still use an iPhone 6s—typing on it right now in fact—and the web has definitely moved on past these old devices. When I got it, it worked perfectly. Now lots of websites will ru…