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Why does the title font look pseudo Greek?
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He talks about it a bit as the "magic numbers". You can see the big table: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/c91b3c50068224929c... I guess there's also syscall emulation stubs for Windows but since he only supports "stdio and sockets" maybe not.
The author is a "she": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Tunney
Wow, although I'm not familiar with her, this wiki article seems a bit melodramatic
Yeah, this isn't going to fly for OpenBSD, which doesn't have ABI stability, programs are expected to use libc. Program for the API, not the ABI. The author is clever, but misguided.
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The author is a "she": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Tunney
"Tunney has described Occupy Wall Street as a far-left movement.[13] Her former comrades have described her as a technocratic fascist.[14]" Wow, although I'm not familiar with her, this wiki article seems a bit melodramatic
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The author is a "she": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Tunney
"Tunney has described Occupy Wall Street as a far-left movement.[13] Her former comrades have described her as a technocratic fascist.[14]" Wow, although I'm not familiar with her, this wiki article seems a bit melodramatic
Then a clever version of a DOS .COM file was posted which implemented uudecode, but it only used x86 instructions that were also ASCII characters. You could copy/paste between the --cut here-- lines into a file, save it as uudecode.com, and then get your other binaries like pkzip.
> we've basically reconfigured the stock compiler on Linux so it outputs binaries that'll run on MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD too. They also boot on bare metal
This is perverse in the best way possible.
It's incompatible with modern debuggers.
It's incompatible with shared libraries.
It's limited to a feature-poor "unified" API (that might as well be seen as a crippled VM).
It's complex in both interface and implementation. The bad aspects of Unix made even worse.
The justifications make no sense whatsoever. It wants to do future-proofing but invents an adhoc "VM" with hardcoded OS interfaces that are meant to be treated as private. For macOS, I doubt binaries will work in the next release or two, nevermind 10 years.
It's a fun toy or troll, but if you're looking at this for serious work I suggest you steer well clear.