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Nice, but I guess it's pretty expensive.

> Alan Kay‘s group at Xerox PARC built Smalltalk and the machine it lived on, the Alto. Everyone knows what we took from PARC: the mouse, the windows, the bitmapped display, the desktop metaphor. …

That's a cool application. Was fun playing around.

That's cool. Did you compare performance with the PUC Lua VM versions (which are register based as well)? Personally, I find the Are-we-fast-yet suite very useful and usually migrate the suite to…

Fascinating. Is there a "preview" anywhere?

Sounds like English film and television series music from the seventies (e.g. "All Creatures Great and Small"). It's nice and surprising (in that Suno was able to create it). But not &q…

Lisp made the compiler’s internal tree representation directly writable by programmers. That is powerful, but it is not the same as giving programmers the best notation for expressing and maintaining …

previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833164

That's a really cool project. Alex already managed to compile the Lisa sources published by the CHM in 2025 using the original Lisa tools run on Ray Arachelian's emulator (see https:/&…

There seem to be a growing number of Rust based microkernel systems (Redox, Robigalia, Tock, Xous, etc.). Anyone knows what's the core benefit of LiberSystem in comparison? The contact address is…

I wouldn't worry about that. Tiobe simply measures how many search queries are made for some terms supposed to represent a programming language, and even that process is still inaccurate (e.g. be…

> RIP Object Pascal Why? It's still there and gets even regular maintenance.

I’ve been working on a project to celebrate the anniversary of MUMPS and its first standard. For those unfamiliar, MUMPS is an imperative language famously born at Mass General Hospital in 1966. Its d…

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, I built a faithful implementation of the 1976 MUMPS standard. For those unfamiliar, MUMPS was born at Mass General Hospital in 1966 and ran heavily on PDP-8s and PDP…

Which brings us back to the beginning of the conversation.

> Citation needed Various, e.g. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/05/radio-davos-jimmy-wa... . It's almost ridiculous to even question these general facts.…

> According to whom? It's very founder (Wales).

> Then by all means, flag them for deletion Why should I? Who am I to decide for other people what's interesting for them? Having those articles in place doesn't bother anyone (as long …

The whole point of wikipedia was that no such silly rules were in place; a topic is worth publishing as long as there is someone willing to publish it and there are no good reasons (e.g. laws) to not …

> you tighten the reins or fold... But don't tell me they will fold because they have an article about the Odin programming language. I rather think people will vote with their feet once m…

As I said, at some point the bueraucracy took over. In the good days of Wikipedia we just added or improved what interested us, no "authority" or bueraucracy involved. Here in Switzerland, w…

I'm not an Odin user, but interested in programming languages. Concerning Odin, we have these figures: GitHub stars 10.5k, Forks 966, Contributors 537, Commits 17,511, Releases 97, latest shown …

> minikotlin is written from scratch in C and emits WebAssembly GC bytecode by hand — no JVM, no LLVM, no Binaryen, no Gradle That's amazing. What an achievement! I would like to learn more …

I find it strange that they deleted the article. The topic is relevant and of sufficient interest. I think there is a deeper bureaucratic pattern behind it. In every once-useful organization, there co…

I recently added a Ninja backend and a users guide and thought this might be helpful for a lot of people. It was pretty stable over the years. I have a few features on my todo list which I will imple…