Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

There were a few other things going on, but mostly I've taken xi editor forward. It's still almost at the point where you'd want to use it for your daily work, but not there just yet. In the last two months, I've had a strong focus on performance, and now it's paying off. A few PR's are still in flight, and there's a write-up than needs to be done, but it's now scrolling smoothly on my 165 Hz gaming monitor (2560x1440 resolution, integrated graphics at that). I'm excited about the progress and feel that it will become a really usable tool fairly soon.

Bettering my sleeping habits, sharpening my modern C++ skills, starting a blog, and analyzing high energy physics collisions.

It can't do a lot. The language 'specification' is just a buch of lined paper sheets. What I want my language to do, is a layer between the core of a C++ program, and the user-customizable side.

I'm using it to call a zoom function in my skeleton image program.

  void toysanta() {  
    toy	*nbzoom = nullptr;  
    nbzoom = isVerb(L"setzoomlevel");  
    if(nbzoom) {  
        if(nbzoom->hasClaus && nbzoom->sled == toy::integer) {  
            bool	k = false;  
	    POINT	pt = {0,0};  
            toy *xt = getToy(L"x");  
            toy *yt = getToy(L"y");  
            if(xt && yt && xt->canNumber() && yt->canNumber()) {  
                pt.x = xt->getInteger();  
                pt.y = yt->getInteger();  
                k = true;  
            }  
            setzoomlevel(nbzoom->claus.integer, k, pt);  
        }  
    }  
  }

The toysanta() member function is from the VerbCommand class. From the zoom widget, there's

  void ZoomWidget::sendzoom_to_target(bool k, POINT pt) {  
    if(target) {  
        std::wstring	cc = L"setzoomlevel ";  
        int		zoom = realZ;//(zPos-32)/3;  
        cc += std::to_wstring(zoom);  
        if(k) {  
            cc += L" x " + std::to_wstring(pt.x);  
            cc += L" y " + std::to_wstring(pt.y);  
        }  
        target->receive(&cc);  
    }  
  }

The receive() member function calls the toysanta() function from the target.

What I plan, is for it to just be perfect, to be honest. I hope it may help others create better software one day.

Xtomp, github.com/teknopaul/xtomp

A STOMP broker written in C using nginx core without the HTTP or SMTP modules. 2017 and wrote more C than JavaScript.

Ran my first 2 ultras.

Also boring enterprise work.