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by qgc 2y ago
Fennel is a neat Lisp-flavored Lua language that I've been using for around 2 years now.
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by qgc 4y ago
The comparison with Perfetto in the video is pretty damn impressive. So nice to have another player in the profiler space. Iteration time is unfortunately (and inexplicably) undervalued. My short time messing around with SpeedScope was more
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by qgc 4y ago
The idea here is adaptive traits becoming maladaptive over time as a situation changes. So you develop a coping mechanism that, temporarily, is better than not coping with the situation you're in, but as either the situation changes or
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by qgc 4y ago
It's really not. This isn't a difference of opinion that looks like "well some thing x is better at doing y than z" It's a fundamental disagreement on the purpose and practice of the language. For regular Forth user
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by qgc 4y ago
If you want to see Chuck talk about these kinds of things "1x Forth" [1] is a great talk from him on these kinds of things. [1] https://youtu.be/pSnNy7IpVMg
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by qgc 4y ago
> Many of the words in the ANS Forth standard consume more than one element from the data stack ANS generally frowned upon by Forthers, the idea of having a standard, cross-platform Forth is something of an insult the Forth philosophy. I
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by qgc 5y ago
roll
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by qgc 5y ago
It is most certainly inspired, in style, by JonesForth [1] which is a classic moment in the "Programming Pedagogy Hall of Fame." [1] https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort.
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by qgc 5y ago
It would be more accurate to describe a metacompiler as a cross compiler to the machine an interpreted Forth is implemented on. I recommend Moving Forth [1] for the full explanation. (That's the part that addresses metacompliers, the r
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by qgc 5y ago
People may be interested in James' other stuff https://howerj.github.io/ https://howerj.github.io/libforth/libforth.htm Although Embed is the more mature project than libforth. I really liked havi
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A Meta-compiler, an implementation of eForth, and a tutorial on both(howerj.github.io)
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by qgc 5y ago
They have some great live coding demos [0] on their blog [1]. [0] https://blog.asrpo.com/jit_programming [1] https://blog.asrpo.com/