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It's an 8 bit unaligned encoding, so this matters very little
Uxn
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Re: Uxn
#12I really like their ideas, and I love that they follow through with actual implementation.
Given the restrictions on the VM, like 64K of memory, are they going to have issues with more complex written languages like Japanese or Arabic?
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#13That page answers "what?" I had to browse around a bit to answer "why?" I landed here: https://100r.co/site/mission.html It's a cool idea. I found the contrast with electron helpful: > While solving some of our issues, Electron was rapidly increasing in size and hunger, so despite it being open-source soon joined the rest of the software that we did away with. Our focus shifted toward reducing our energy use, and to…
Electron is slow when your code is crappy .
Re: Uxn
#14Related. Others? Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual machine (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39575102 - March 2024 (18 comments) Virtualizing Uxn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37091091 - Aug 2023 (4 comments) The Uxn Ecosystem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36734445 - July 2023 (54 comments) The Uxn Ecosystem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36642390 - July 2023 (2…
I don't want to go to Chel-C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31705239 - June 2022 (124 comments) is sorta-related, since it's a rebuttal.
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#15That page answers "what?" I had to browse around a bit to answer "why?" I landed here: https://100r.co/site/mission.html It's a cool idea. I found the contrast with electron helpful: > While solving some of our issues, Electron was rapidly increasing in size and hunger, so despite it being open-source soon joined the rest of the software that we did away with. Our focus shifted toward reducing our energy use, and to…
Electron is slow when your code is crappy .
HTML is just so big
Re: Uxn
#16This reminds me of Urbit
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#17That page answers "what?" I had to browse around a bit to answer "why?" I landed here: https://100r.co/site/mission.html It's a cool idea. I found the contrast with electron helpful: > While solving some of our issues, Electron was rapidly increasing in size and hunger, so despite it being open-source soon joined the rest of the software that we did away with. Our focus shifted toward reducing our energy use, and to…
Electron is slow when your code is crappy .
Yea that must be why the original electron authors abandoned it and are now working on an editor in Rust.
Re: Uxn
#18I really like their ideas, and I love that they follow through with actual implementation. Given the restrictions on the VM, like 64K of memory, are they going to have issues with more complex written languages like Japanese or Arabic?
> Given the restrictions on the VM, like 64K of memory, are they going to have issues with more complex written languages like Japanese or Arabic?
That can be achieved by adding an additional (virtual) device, as it was often done for such scripts in the past.
Re: Uxn
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
why that reaction? what impact does one or the other entail?
well, if i wanted to emulate this on some tiny piece of hardware, as one does. Little endian is generally a lot more amenable to emulation, since math of almost all kinds of done LSB-to-MSB
Uxn uses big endian primarily because it is meant to be easily assembled from (or disassembled into) a thin programming language called Tal. I think Tal is meant to be the highest-level language available in this platform, so it should be as convenient as possible without being too fat---`#1234` in Tal would ideally be assembled to two bytes `12 34` therefore.
Re: Uxn
#20Noob developer here. From what I understand this can only run on emulators. If I have a system powerful enough to run an emulator why would I want to use this? I understand being able to run this on old consoles. But what about modern computers?