Ask HN: Are you programming on your holidays?

Post by jyothepro » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 11:21 PM UTC

Post by markbao » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 11:23 PM UTC

Post by markbao » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 11:23 PM UTC

fouric wrote: post #10

Very much so. As a student, I have found that it is much easier to focus on my large personal projects in between terms, when I don't have homework and/or lectures every day to interrupt my coding sessions[1]. Edit: As for what I am building, I am working on a graphics editor written in Common Lisp, partially as a way to verify others' claims about Lisp's efficiency, and partially to see for myself how difficult it i…

Post by dominotw » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 11:25 PM UTC

sdegutis wrote: post #3

Yep! Trying to write my very first programming language[1]. Aiming to have a legit GC (mark/sweep), a legit VM with bytecode (possibly stack-based to start out with), and familiar data types. Oh and I'm doing it entirely in C, because I have a special love/hate relationship with C that never seems to die. It's going slow, but very fun! [1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/Paladin

Post by Geee » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 11:26 PM UTC