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That explains why these kind of news have been entirely absent from slashdot (with the exception of that one heavily castrated entry).

The link in question is actually " http://yurivish.com/Silk%20Static/Silkura%20-May%2002%20-loo... - yurivish.com seems to be a loop to localhost (maybe broken DNS or something, I …

Is that argument supposed to be in favor of Kallithea? Because I don't see how it does, tbh.

Yes, of course. But that's ABI , not API.

> Nitpick about what? Subtle about what? What are you talking about? The clause I mentioned. I'm sorry if I was ambigious, but there were discussions in the past hovering about how…

It's not so much about what I would like to see, but rather why some developers insist on copying Lua's stack-based API, merely because so many people have accepted Lua as the very…

About 'correctness' and 'small size' ... as soon as they'd add unittests as extensive as V8, JSCore, or SpiderMonkey, it'd grow big quite dramatically. :-) I'd be interested to see…

>They can abide by the free license, or pay for a different license Or... use a library that suffers none of these issues. :-) My point is about the clause in the GPL that enforces…

The grand majority of programming language APIs do not use a stack-based API. Really, stack-based APIs are an exception in just about every way, but not in a good way. If your ques…

Well, that's just Oracle being Oracle. They did the same nonsense with Opensolaris, if I recall correctly.

I noticed that too. My theory is that MuJS started out as a fork of Lua, with all sorts of Ecmascript-compat bolted on. Use with care, I suppose.

And what if those companies wish to provide their software to customers? Enter a terrible hell of "how are we going to relicense our stuff", that'll most likely end up with said co…

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not a particular fan of Lua-inspired pseudo-stackbased APIs. I'm not sure why so many language devs insist on this terrible design. I fail to see anythi…

Aw, now I'm really interested in seeing what the jsfiddle was, but the post got killed... :(

I'm from Germany, so I see what you mean -- in Europe, especially central and northern europe, there's hardly any need to share files physically. But alternatives are necessary in …

1.50$ for an entire pack of USB sticks? Where did you find such an offer? Because according to amazon, the cheapest they have are a pack of 10 USB sticks, 1GB, for 39$: http://www.…

>Can you elaborate on why you feel a need for such physical media? Maybe it's not perceived the same way in the USA, but in Europe, most people who use cloud-services find it incre…

For a long time, floppy disks where the best way to cheaply share data with other people on a hardware basis. It was good for plenty reasons: floppy disks don't cost much, they're …

Oh man, and I'm glad they finally settled for Phobos. I don't use D much, but thanks to gdc, the gcc frontend to dmd, and Phobos, writing D actually became acceptable, almost enjoy…

Pretty impressive, I didn't know Erlang was suitable for web programming. :-) Nonetheless, you really should make sure that input is sanitized. XSS attacks are a nasty thing.

Not to worry, but sanitizing input literally takes no more than one additional function call (at least for php/ruby/python/perl/nodejs/java/c#/ocaml). I can understand that this mi…