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mstoical
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Retro: A Modern, Pragmatic Forth
I'm not a C programmer, and it took a fair bit of help from folks here on HN to get it compiling (it was forked from a 20 year old C source), for which I'm grateful.
[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical
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Ask HN: Programming Without a Build System?
Details I didn't include but should have (I wasn't sure I'd have any replies at all... I should have had more faith, sorry)
It's a bit of a ramble, sorry about that.
MSTOICAL[0] is a fork of an old C based Forth variant, it took some help from the HN community[1] to get it to compile in a modern 64 bit environment, for which I am very thankful. However, it uses AutoConf to configure, build, install, etc... and I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove all of that logic. (C isn't my primary language, I'm willing to learn that, but adding AutoConf on top of it was too much)
In order to work on that, I was willing to switch to Linux (Ubuntu)... got everything up and running for the most part, but then I couldn't access WikidPad[2], my local Wiki with my appointments, etc. I missed a doctors appointment because of that, so went back to Windows.
The issue is around wxWindows changing the names of variables in some calls. On Windows, you just download an EXE installer and you're good to go. I couldn't figure it out because the program seems to be unwilling to support newer Python versions. (I could be wrong)
I don't understand why they felt the need to make breaking changes to wxWindows, and the python is a bit too dense for me.
So finally... I'm back in Windows 10, and decided to try to craft together a twitter clone with a bunch of weird ideas that I tossed out at 3:30 am in a twitter thread, and put into a more coherent manifesto.[3]
[0] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957273
[2] https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad
[3] https://github.com/mikewarot/iceberg/blob/main/MANIFESTO.md
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Ask HN: Paragraphs – should they contain line breaks?
Reviewing the documentation from Stoical[1], it occurs to me that fixed line length text is archaic, yet I'm new to this world of C programmers.
Is it reasonable to get rid of all the extra line breaks and make something that flows better on all screen sizes?
[1] - https://github.com/mikewarot/stoical/blob/main/doc/Stoical
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Old C code – how to upgrade it?
That'd probably get you some way there already: https://github.com/mikewarot/stoical
stoical-mentoring
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Old C code – how to upgrade it?
OK, I'm fine with opening it up, too, and we should probably so so, that may give more input. There have been lots of fixes posted already, and I haven't checked whether that solves everything (this would be a bit counter to helping in a natural way), so I don't know whether there's actually anything left to do. For either case, I've put up a page which will contain updates on the events here[1].
Public live streaming is new to me and so far I've evaded any public records of my video and voice, maybe that's pointless since this will become increasingly impossible into the future, but I'm undecided and so far am planning for a conference that, while open for anyone to join (see [1]), will not make a recording public. I might be swayed. I'm also still not omniscient in the C world (the most glaring is probably that I've never used the GNU autotools!), OTOH I'm yearning for somewhat higher levels of abstraction so my C coding is often untypical, so YMMV if you're after learning standard ways of working in C.
[1] https://github.com/pflanze/stoical-mentoring
What are some alternatives?
gale - Strongly-typed, minimal-ish, stack-based development at storm-force speed.
stoical - An ancient forth like language
create-react-app-zero - All of Create React App, none of the dependencies
retdec - RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM.
copycat - A concatenative language on Scheme
ActorForth - A strongly typed Forth-like language ultimately intended to target cryptoledgers and support an Actor concurrency model. Initially implemented in Python, now switched to modern C++.
kitten - A statically typed concatenative systems programming language.
iceberg - Twitter hit an iceberg, let's replace the ship by Thanksgiving (Nov 24, 2022)
WikidPad - WikidPad is a single user desktop wiki