bfchroma VS v86

I've used a markdown to html converter to convert my blog posts into HTML with very nice and customizable code samples... in my case I used Go's Blackfriday library with bfchroma[1] doing syntax highlighting with Chroma[2]. To add your language to Chroma you have to provide a lexer, which in turn is written in Pygments[3] syntax.

[1] https://github.com/Depado/bfchroma/

[2] https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma#supported-languages

[3] https://pygments.org/docs/lexerdevelopment/

Not being able to re-use html templates was a major problem for me (Web components could solve this when they get rid of the need for JS to use them, which I think will soon happen), and I also needed easy source code highlighting as I mostly write about code. So I wrote a Go generator that did just what I needed and now write my blog posts mostly in markdown, with support for code highlighting thanks to Blackfriday and bfchroma... both of which are simple Go libraries which I "vendor" (copy the source into my own project, so to speak) so if they stop maintaining them, it doesn't affect me much or at all.

> As a thought experiment, we're almost there! We could technically have `win95.img + bochs86vm.wasm + autorun.inf + msword.exe` wrapped in a "browser evaluator"

I looked into this and... holy crap! We are there. Not for modern programs quite yet, sure, but this is amazing. You can use Windows 2000 from your browser.

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows2000

I think you are looking for Shadow.

https://shadow.goose.icu

Or just the whole kitchen sink. Why not?

http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98

Also: https://github.com/copy/v86 - more productized browser x86 runtime, used by eg https://github.com/snaplet/postgres-wasm

Wonder if you could put all those databases in a Linux image and boot it using v86 [0], eliminating the need for a server.

[0] https://github.com/copy/v86

Trying it out in https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=kolibrios , it's also clearly a love letter to Windows 95 in particular. That could be an unstated goal here, create a very particular PC experience under very particular constraints. I don't know anything about the creator but it's very possible that this kind of work was actually their career in the 90s.

It's incredible how much work was done. Maybe this should be an internet curiosity like how TempleOS has become, though Terry's personality was a unique factor.

hmm, why would people still use VMWare? Isn't vbox open source, or even things such as https://copy.sh/v86/ would do most virtualization trick now days?

Oh, there are more OSes one can use at the parent page:

https://copy.sh/v86/

My highlights:

- First version of Windows (1.01)

- SerenityOS <3

- and even ReactOS