Yes, that Fortran.
Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
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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
#2out of curiosity, why fortran? no disrespect. I wrote a lot of scientific software in the earlier days of my career and I learned fortran to update ocean modeling software.
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#3out of curiosity, why fortran? no disrespect. I wrote a lot of scientific software in the earlier days of my career and I learned fortran to update ocean modeling software.
maybe they weren't really concerned about portability or a decent standard?
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#4out of curiosity, why fortran? no disrespect. I wrote a lot of scientific software in the earlier days of my career and I learned fortran to update ocean modeling software.
> why fortran?
why not? the language is straightforward and loops are fast. It is portable and your code will work unchanged for the next 50 years. It may be a bit verbose, but that's not a big deal with today's tooling.
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#5fortran > cobol
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#6out of curiosity, why fortran? no disrespect. I wrote a lot of scientific software in the earlier days of my career and I learned fortran to update ocean modeling software.
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 looks great on Swordfish90’s cool-retro-term, but we are building our own terminal for Fortransky too. There is a blog post with screenshots over at Patreon/formerlab
Can’t get enough Fortran
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#7out of curiosity, why fortran? no disrespect. I wrote a lot of scientific software in the earlier days of my career and I learned fortran to update ocean modeling software.
> why fortran? why not? the language is straightforward and loops are fast. It is portable and your code will work unchanged for the next 50 years. It may be a bit verbose, but that's not a big deal with today's tooling.
Fortran will survive the cockroaches even, when the world 404s
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#8out of curiosity, why fortran? no disrespect. I wrote a lot of scientific software in the earlier days of my career and I learned fortran to update ocean modeling software.
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…
> The world is better with a Fortran-based social network client in it
If you don't mind me asking, why is the world better with more Fortran-based software?
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#9out of curiosity, why fortran? no disrespect. I wrote a lot of scientific software in the earlier days of my career and I learned fortran to update ocean modeling software.
maybe they weren't really concerned about portability or a decent standard?
It’s keyboard navigation only, and we got the Bluesky firehose raw straight into the Rust decoder. Or we switch mode to Jetstream with m+EnTER
:)
You hit l+ENTER to like a post. If anyone replies from Bluesky, we hit n+ENTER and see the notifs. And so on
Fortransky is 70% Fortran, rest is Rust, C and a tiny Python helper
Re: Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
#10The world is a better place for this app. Wonderful!