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When I was at school (a long time ago), they tried to explain computers to us by making an adder using beads and matchboxes. We didn't have classroom computers back then. I'd like to know how that worked. I've always wanted to build a digital clock entirely running on fluids. It would use fluid gates, and present a digital display by pushing blobs of coloured immiscible liquids back and forth through glass tubes (per…
* Graph-relational database
* Queries return objects linked to other objects through properties, not rows
* ... But it's still Postgres under the hood
* Open source
- Tarantool is some sort of in-memory DB with optional persistence
- Red is a programming language that has made the odd syntax decision to use {} for strings and [] to define scopes
- U++ is one of those all-encompasing C++ frameworks like QT
- Lazarus is a Pascal(?) IDE
- And FASM is a toolkit for building assemblers
I'm struggling to find the common thread across these links, apart from the OP probably being an enthusiast of obscure programming languages
I dream of a CMS akin to WordPress, but developed in LSP.
Lua is lean, with minimal syntactic sugar, and it feels like a 'complete' language. Therefore, we don't anticipate any additional bloat in the future.
Most people know about MediaWiki even if they don't realize they do, because it powers Wikipedia, but I wish more people used it for documentation. You can create highly specialized templates in Lua, and there's a RDBMS extension called Cargo that gives you some limited SQL ability too. With these tools you can build basically an entirely custom CMS on top of the base MW software, while retaining everything that's gr…
Nix package manager's `nix-shell` is something I wish more people knew about. Nix is gaining some popularity, but people often think of using it has to be a really big commitment, like changing your Linux distro to NixOS or replacing your dotfiles with a Nix-based one (using the Nix package manager). What I wish more people knew was that you don't need to do those things to get value from Nix. Create project specific…