BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake

#1

Post by signa11 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC

Re: BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake

#2

Post by stragies » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 3:27 PM UTC

Typo: Line 3 of the readme should probably read "I could not suppress ..."

On-Topic: Very creative (ab)use of `make`. +1

#3

Post by shevy-java » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 3:41 PM UTC

This is why the BSDs lost ground to Linux: they invest too much time into playing!

#4

Post by tonetheman » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 3:51 PM UTC

lovely stuff... putting a renderer in make and writing about it is why hnews exists

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Post by b-aaz » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

tonetheman wrote: post #4

lovely stuff... putting a renderer in make and writing about it is why hnews exists

Thanks!

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Post by b-aaz » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

stragies wrote: post #2

Typo: Line 3 of the readme should probably read "I could not suppress ..." On-Topic: Very creative (ab)use of `make`. +1

Good catch & thanks!

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Post by avadodin » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

shevy-java wrote: post #3

This is why the BSDs lost ground to Linux: they invest too much time into playing!

> Exhibit A: bsdgames

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Post by hulitu » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

bmake -j has no effect.