It seems you’ve written an extensive blog post about this, but I don’t see a direct link anywhere!
Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
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Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#62Love seeing niche Show HN projects like this. The choice of Fortran is wild but that's what makes it fun. As someone building small Mac utilities, I appreciate any project that proves you don't need a massive stack to ship something useful.
Thanks for the feedback! We got a spec for Assemblersky. Will be a weekend project. Cancel Easter :) And probably Midsummer too… We got image composer and decoder plugged in in dev env, but will let this first open version breathe first. ASCII or early Apple algo Fortran-fast feed builder probably in next open version. It crunches fast Morning, 9 o’clock in Sweden, coffee and check-the-feed-on- Fortransky-time :)
COBOLsky. It’s enterprise webscale.
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#63There seems to be a bunch of Rust in there too?
It’s early version yes. It’s 70% Fortran, next version more Fortran and we will add x86-64 assembly decoder for AT Proto firehose frames
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#64It seems you’ve written an extensive blog post about this, but I don’t see a direct link anywhere! https://www.patreon.com/posts/fortransky-we-in-153457794
To the repo? It’s in the blog post head, in section under first screenshot,
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#65It seems you’ve written an extensive blog post about this, but I don’t see a direct link anywhere! https://www.patreon.com/posts/fortransky-we-in-153457794
To the repo? It’s in the blog post head, in section under first screenshot, https://github.com/FormerLab/fortransky
No, I mean the other direction.
The repo is what’s this HN post links to, and I don’t see a link to the blog post in it or in other comments here. The blog post is interesting!
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#66I’ve never seen fortran before. Wow, that looks more readable than a lot of modern languages.
Modern versions of Fortran are reasonably pretty. It’s a fairly nice language. You can probably get better performance out of C/C++ with unlimited effort. But, it is really nice for allowing computational scientists to get, like, 95% of the way there. I think it actually suffers from the reputation as this ancient/super hardcore performance language. The name comes from “Formula Translating System,” which implies… it…
ive maintained a simulation software where the core is written in fortran. its using some intel math library that is expensive that i cannot recall, does immense calculations and makes faster binaries than c on every compiler we tried
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#67Finally! Some relevant news here. I wondered where all the other Fortran people were hiding. I thought I knew all the other BlueSky Fortraners.
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#68Earlier 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…
Which version of the language is it? It looks like you used Fortran90 at least (modules are used), which is pretty old, but not totally ancient like Fortran77. Anyway there are also 2018 and 2023 versions…
I still make a living from Fortran77 work, though much of it is converting it to Matlab.
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#69Whenever I hear about this AT protocol I think about the text-based commands to control cellular modems. I can't be the only one, r-right guise... r-right?
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
To the repo? It’s in the blog post head, in section under first screenshot, https://github.com/FormerLab/fortransky
No, I mean the other direction. The repo is what’s this HN post links to, and I don’t see a link to the blog post in it or in other comments here. The blog post is interesting!
Ok got you. Good point, added to repo README