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Re: QuickJS JavaScript Engine

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Post by icosahedron »

scrollaway wrote: post #152
ksec wrote: post #96

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I have two question in my mind. 1. Are there anyone on HN knows him in real life? 2. Does anyone have other people in their mind who is in the same league as this man? Mike Pall's LuaJIT sort of make him at this level but that is only one thing. Fabrice create things that everyone are using it one way or another, and if it wasn't HEVC patents mess we would have his bpg [1] replacing jpeg. [1] https://bellard.org/bpg/

John Carmack is the immediate one that comes to mind.

He was also behind quite a few innovations at Oculus for their Rift headset, including their Time Warping tech.

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Post by fightingcat »

krferriter wrote: post #80
saagarjha wrote: post #27

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From a cursory glance, it doesn't look like it's a bunch of files concatenated together.

It's C so it's harder to tell than other languages, since it doesn't have separate namespaces for everything. You can just write a bunch of functions and global variables in separate files and then act like they're all in the same file, and there's really no difference.

Any chance he has a super loooong screen? XD

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Post by davesmith1983 »

neilv wrote: post #269
davesmith1983 wrote: post #266

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I don't agree at all. From day one he been using intellectual wankery. Regarding lists like r/stallmanwasright, I work with plenty of smart people who couldn't care less about free software some of them aren't even tech savvy and they can spot all the problems with a lot of the services we have today. I think it is more an exercise of throwing shit at a wall until and seeing what sticks. Which btw is a perfectly vali…

I think the difficulty for me in responding here is that your comment contains both assertions about intellectual merit (which could be interesting to explore), and more broad aversion to the person (which might be relevant to intellectual merit, and/or to the meta of dialogue about that, but is a manners minefield). This thread is pretty tangential to the post to start with, so there will be better occasions to disc…

Fair enough. If you are interested I suggest you read:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/014...

He has a few chapters about problems (rarely mentioned) with GNU / GPL and Stallman himself.

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Post by dig1 »

mkl wrote: post #225
dig1 wrote: post #212

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Guy L. Steele - no proper language design can go without him. I think he is the only person who enjoys writing language reference manuals and is able to explain every language detail mathematically and linguistically everyone can understand. He was behind C, Java, Scheme, Common Lisp, ECMA, Fortan...

Perhaps you mean behind standards and reference manuals for, rather than behind the languages? Behind Scheme and Common Lisp, okay. But he contributed to standardisation and documentation of the others after their creation, rather than being one of their designers.

Yes :)

Re: QuickJS JavaScript Engine

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Post by fangzhzh »

amrox wrote: post #139

Does anyone know is this is x86 specific? It sounds like it’s just C but I’m not at a computer right now so I can’t dig in. It seems really interesting for embedded or mobile (iOS/Android) too

Curious too. Anyone help pointing a way how to verify the possibility?
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