theMackabu

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by theMackabu 2mo ago
> Odd choice for a vibecoded project. I'm using coding agents to accelerate implementation, not to replace understanding or review. The architecture, technical decisions, testing, and final responsibility are still mine, so I don&#x
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
this is very out of date, from February. please just check the repo or even run the tests
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
no sandbox on windows... yet!
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
not anymore!
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
> How is it so much smaller than V8 while also apparently including a package manager, a web server, a TypeScript compiler and a hypervisor? Much less complex tiers of jit, no unicode ICU, and no startup js snapshot
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
would be cool to see!
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
on linux its kvm, on darwin its hypervisor.framework, the memory is not upfront, by default 256mb is lazy allocated, and ~35mb are used by both ant + the vm. the kernel is https://nanos.org with patches to get ant+networking run
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
its pretty fast tbh, though third-party benches would be great to have!
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
this is coming soon!
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
this page is literally a inside joke, theres a reason /jobs doesn't work (im not hiring)
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
I dont know a single soul who uses the Anthropic `ant` cli....
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
yes! I will be making a roadmap like a comment here suggested, should help
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
this was flagging code from all the way back in dec of 2025, back when this project was just some idea and not what it is today. around feb thats when basically deleted the existing codebase and designed a much more reliable system from the
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
> interesting, is there any reason behind DNS/(ISP?) providers blocking .land domains? tbh have not seen any reason behind it, just saw my ants.land get blocked a office firewall once while demoing
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
many, the engine has basically gone through a full rewrite since feb, that was still mostly interpt and missing many jit ops. nightly will include benchmarks soon as well
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
thats very weird, its hosted on cloudflare workers atm. might be blocked by your isp? ive seen that happen to .land
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
unknown, have not tried. but let me know if it does work
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
LATEST RELEASE REQUIRES A STATIC RELEASE HOTFIX!! https://github.com/theMackabu/ant/actions/runs/29167621329 . im very sorry everyone who tried to install and got a libcares error :(
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
:D
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
its ~8mb including the entire runtime and node-compat work. pretty simple to embed anywhere as well
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
good idea!
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by theMackabu 2mo ago
just got the thing for you actually! literally just finished a stable version last night, https://www.npmjs.com/package/ant-desktop . WIP still, chromium only renderer backend but webview and other backends coming soon
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Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem(antjs.org)
330 points by theMackabu 2mo ago|148 comments
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Show HN: Registry for Ant and Everyone Else(ants.land)
1 points by theMackabu 3mo ago|0 comments
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by theMackabu 4mo ago
llvm is big/slow to compile and doesnt really fit js dynamic execution well in most cases
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Show HN: Ant – A from-scratch JavaScript runtime in 9 MB(github.com)
8 points by theMackabu 4mo ago|4 comments
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Working Was the Beginning(themackabu.dev)
3 points by theMackabu 4mo ago|0 comments
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by theMackabu 8mo ago
Four times actually, got a better reception on other sites though lwk
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by theMackabu 8mo ago
I have to say it was the GC, as i’ve had to fix it another 5 times since this article
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Building a JavaScript runtime in one month(themackabu.dev)
4 points by theMackabu 8mo ago|4 comments

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