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BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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ferret
- How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)
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Ferret: A functional, lazy language for realtime embedded control systems
Seems like there has been no development since 2020 - https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret
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Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong
The whole of ferret's source code is in a single org-mode file, following the literate programming style: https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret/blob/master/ferret.org
- Clojure – Differences with Other Lisps
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Learning Clojure made me return back to C/C++
fyi there's some middle ground via ferret if you want to mix the two in the future. I think janet lang is more full featured, borrowing ideas from clojure while targeting simple embedding alongside c.
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uLisp
Another commenter already mentioned Gambit Scheme. That provides for inline C and therefore very easy interop with external libraries. It still has a runtime and GC though - those might pose a problem depending on your platform and task.
Ferret (https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret) and Carp (https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp) are both Lisp-like low level languages. Both seem to be fairly experimental in nature though.
> anything but C
Taking you literally, Rust and D can both compile for bare metal. D in particular has a "Better C" subset. (https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html)
In the same vein, Terra is a C like language (manual memory management) that you metaprogram with Lua. (https://github.com/terralang/terra)
Taking you very literally, Forth is also an option.
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Writing a whole program in Org Mode
Impressive. Wonder how the performance in Emacs will be with a file this big... org source file
mu
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Damn Small Linux 2024
Depending on how minimal a distribution you want, a few years ago I had a way to take a single ELF binary created by my computing stack built up from machine code (https://github.com/akkartik/mu) and package it up with just a linux kernel and syslinux (whatever _that_ is) to create a bootable disk image I could then ship to a cloud server (https://akkartik.name/post/iso-on-linode, though I don't use Linode anymore these days) and run on a VPS to create a truly minimal webserver. If this seems at all relevant I'd be happy to answer questions or help out.
- Ask HN: Good Books on Philosophy of Engineering
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x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu by Ed Jorgensen
This was the thinking behind my https://github.com/akkartik/mu
- Show HN: FocusedEdit – a classic Macintosh to web browser shared text editor
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Plain Text. With Lines
Yes thank you, I was indeed alluding to https://github.com/akkartik/mu. Perhaps a more precise term would be "software stack".
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Inferno: A small operating system for building crossplatform distributed systems
I built a computer with its own languages, and I consider it to be _less_ cognitive load when everything is in 1/2/3 languages. I don't have to worry that the next program I want to read the sources will require "Go, Rust, C++, JS/TS, Python, Java, etc."
There are other metrics to consider besides your notions of cognitive load and productivity. Inferno predates most of the languages on your list. My computer (https://github.com/akkartik/mu) uses custom languages because I was able to design them to minimize total LoC, and to ensure the dependency graph has no cycles (unlike all of the conventional software stack, at least until https://www.gnu.org/software/mes connects up all the dots).
- Llisp: Lisp in Lisp
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10 Years Against Division of Labor in Software
"Separation of concerns is a hard-won insight."
Absolutely. I'm arguing for separating just concerns, without entangling them with considerations of people.
It's certainly reasonable to consider my projects toy. I consider them research:
* https://github.com/akkartik/mu
* https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
"The idea that projects should take source copies instead of library dependencies is just kind of nuts..."
The idea that projects should take copies seems about symmetric to me with taking pointers. Call by value vs call by reference. We just haven't had 50 years of tooling to support copies. Where would we be by now if we had devoted equal resources to both branches?
"...at least for large libraries."
How are these large libraries going for ya? Log4j wasn't exactly a shining example of the human race at its best. We're trying to run before we can walk.
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My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
I still believe :) I'm looking not for an economic argument but for a strategic one. I think[1] a self-hosted setup with minimal dependencies can be more resilient than a conventional one, whether with a vendor or self-hosted.
https://sandstorm.io got a lot right. I wish they'd paid more attention to upgrade burdens.
[1] https://github.com/akkartik/mu
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My 486 Server
I'm very interested in the network stack, having explored it for a while for https://github.com/akkartik/mu before giving up. What sort of network card do you support?
What are some alternatives?
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library
ulisp - A version of the Lisp programming language for ATmega-based Arduino boards.
mtpng - A parallelized PNG encoder in Rust
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
collapseos - Bootstrap post-collapse technology
Lua-RTOS-ESP32 - Lua RTOS for ESP32
mirage - MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels
etaoin - Pure Clojure Webdriver protocol implementation
librope - UTF-8 rope library for C
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
teliva - Fork of Lua 5.1 to encourage end-user programming