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

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Post by pklausler »

enriquto wrote: post #4
cat-turner wrote: post #2

out of curiosity, why fortran? no disrespect. I wrote a lot of scientific software in the earlier days of my career and I learned fortran to update ocean modeling software.

> why fortran? why not? the language is straightforward and loops are fast. It is portable and your code will work unchanged for the next 50 years. It may be a bit verbose, but that's not a big deal with today's tooling.

Your code will work unchanged until you try to change compilers or your compiler adopts a J3 breaking change to the language.

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

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Post by FormerLabFred »

embedding-shape wrote: post #8
FormerLabFred wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 loo…

> The world is better with a Fortran-based social network client in it If you don't mind me asking, why is the world better with more Fortran-based software?

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

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

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Post by FormerLabFred »

uberdru wrote: post #10

The world is a better place for this app. Wonderful!

:) 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

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

FormerLabFred wrote: post #13
embedding-shape wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The world is better with a Fortran-based social network client in it If you don't mind me asking, why is the world better with more Fortran-based software?

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

> Our modern languages are built on it

It's part of the lineage, yeah, probably started with Algol though? Fast I guess is always nice, but I'm not sure that's enough to keep it alive solely for that, at least to me.

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

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Post by mountainriver »

FormerLabFred wrote: post #13
embedding-shape wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The world is better with a Fortran-based social network client in it If you don't mind me asking, why is the world better with more Fortran-based software?

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

This thread makes me happy

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

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Post by iameli »

hk1337 wrote: post #16

Are there any other AT protocol apps that aren’t derivatives of bluesky? By that I mean, not social media feed related, twitter clone.

Yep lots! Mine is a livestreaming service: https://stream.place

Also a great blogging platform: https://leaflet.pub

Here's a goal tracker: https://goals.garden

This one just dropped recently; it's 44 different atproto-related apps with a cyberpunk theme: https://www.aetheros.computer/

Lots others mentioned here: https://blueskydirectory.com/

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