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Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

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Google App Engine originally used a custom containment strategy. Back in the day, I was on the team that added Python 2.7 support to App Engine and we were experimenting with a different containment approach. But Python is a complex language to support - you need to support WSGI, to support dynamic loading (for C extensions), a reasonably performant file system (Python calls `stat` about a billion times before actual…

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Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

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post #13

This is gold. It reflects too many real engineering projects so well. Sometimes I'm the guy to point this out, but too often I catch myself arguing for adding unnecessary complexity (unfortunately usually in hindsight). There should always be one engineer playing devil's advocate and at least try arguing why a new system/service isn't necessary.

The 10th man rule

Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

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post #6

So he is running clusters of brainf#ck machines in the cloud? I think this can be legitimately called a Clusterf#ck.

Ideally Clusterf#ck should use f#ckf#ck.

>B**b!!!!!!!!!!!! A R S E feck kn*b c* ksh ag t*ts butt

>The above example will echo the first twelve characters from a file/stdin.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050207213934/http://chilliwill...

Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

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Google App Engine originally used a custom containment strategy. Back in the day, I was on the team that added Python 2.7 support to App Engine and we were experimenting with a different containment approach. But Python is a complex language to support - you need to support WSGI, to support dynamic loading (for C extensions), a reasonably performant file system (Python calls `stat` about a billion times before actual…

What?

I was also really confused by this comment until I re-read it later.

At first I thought OP meant “we wrote out container runtime in Brainfuck,” but what I think they meant was “we first deployed Brainfuck support in order to test our new runtime on something simpler than Python.”

Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

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post #26
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume he is writing in https://fsharp.org/

Drumrol... Wait for the release of Brain#

I did write a .NET compiler a few years ago for a procedural variant of Brainf*ck: https://www.parkscomputing.com/applications/pbrain/
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