rosettaboy
notabase
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26 days ago | 2 months ago | |
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MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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rosettaboy
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When Zig Outshines Rust – Memory Efficient Enum Arrays
As somebody who has written the same gameboy emulator in C++, Rust, and Zig (as well as C, Go, Nim, PHP, and Python) - I have yet to find a place where language affected emulation correctness.
Gameboy audio is kind of a pain in the ass (at least compared to CPU, which is fairly easy, and GPU, which is easy to get "good enough” if you don’t care about things like palette colours being swapped mid-scanline) - and some languages take more or less code to do the same thing (eg languages which allow one block of memory to be interpreted in several different ways concurrently will make the “interpret audio RAM as a bunch of registers” code much shorter with less copying) - but in my case at least, each one of my implementations actually has the same audio distortions, presumably because I’m misreading some part of the hardware spec :P
https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy/
(Also yes, the zig version is currently failing because every time I look at it the build system has had breaking changes...)
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Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch-on like wild fire as Rust did?
Niceness is subjective, but Nim is just as valid an addition to that group. Nim compiles to C and has had an --os=standalone mode for like 10 years from its git history, and as mentioned else-thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36506087) can be used for Linux kernel modules. Multiple people have written "stub OSes" in it (https://github.com/dom96/nimkernel & further along https://github.com/khaledh/axiom).
While it can use clang as a backend, Nim does not rely upon LLVM support like Zig or Rust (pre-gcc-rust working). Use on embedded devices is fairly popular: https://forum.nim-lang.org/search?q=embedded (or web search).
Latency-wise, for a time, video game programming was a perceived "adoption niche" or maybe "hook" for Nim and games often have stringent frame rendering deadlines. If you are interested in video games, you might appreciate https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy which covers all but Ada in your list with Nim being fastest (on one CPU/version/compiler/etc). Note, however, that cross-PL comparisons are often done by those with much "porting energy" but limited familiarity with any but a few of the PLs. A better way to view it is that "Nim responds well to optimization effort" (like C/Ada/C++/Rust/Zig).
- Finished building a working Game Boy Color emulator using React and WebAssembly 🎮🕹️
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Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy
The same gameboy emulator rewritten in C++, Go, Nim, PHP, Cython, Python, Rust, and Zig (and WIP typescript); mostly to teach myself the languages and to compare and contrast their idioms.
Also, when taken with a very large grain of salt, usable as a language benchmark (As with all benchmarks, there are lots of caveats - but as far as I’m aware this is unique in being “the same code in multiple languages” and “several thousand lines of code”):
$ ./utils/bench.py
- Zig 0.10.0 Release Notes
- Python 3.11 is much faster than 3.8
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Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml
Looks very polished, but major disappointment that it's not showcasing OCaml as part of RosettaBoy (https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy)
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Which programming language or compiler is faster
I’m working on it :) https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy
(Ok it’s 5-10k lines rather than a million, but it’s non-trivial enough that the differences between languages are noticable)
- RosettaBoy – the same Gameboy emulator in Rust, Python, and C++
notabase
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Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
https://notabase.io - a note-taking app for networked thinking.
It supports page stacking, linked references, block references, a graph view, and all that good stuff. Think of it as similar to Roam Research / Obsidian.
It's also open source so you can self-host it. Here's the code: https://github.com/churichard/notabase
I'm hoping to add support for shareable links soon. Open to other ideas or feedback!
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What is the best school planner app that could sync with PC?
you can check out this page https://alternativeto.net/software/joplin/?platform=online but the best I could find are - https://www.taskade.com/ https://standardnotes.com/ https://notesnook.com/ https://bundlednotes.com/ https://diaroapp.com/ https://notabase.io/ https://boostnote.io/ etc.
- Self hosted app with web clipper feature
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Switching Rich Text Editors, Part 1: Picking Tiptap
When evaluating rich text editors for the note-taking app I started about a year ago (https://notabase.io), I ended up going with Slate because of its flexible schema and customizable plugin architecture.
I sort of regret that choice now. I ran into a lot of bugs when integrating it which I had to manually work around; issues go months without being addressed; and there still isn't good cross-platform support, especially for Android. With a more active contributor base, Slate could be a fantastic library, but I get the feeling that it's in maintenance mode now, with not many major changes in the past year and a v1.0 still far in the future.
Tiptap looks like it might be a good choice now, but I find it off-putting that I can't insert links in the demo editor on Tiptap's website (https://tiptap.dev), especially for my use case (a note-taking app whose core concept revolves around links).
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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
I'm working on an open source note-taking app called Notabase [1]. It's built primarily for my use - I just never liked most existing note-taking apps and wanted to make one that fit the way that I think. I made it open source [2] so other people can build on top of my ideas, and released a hosted version so that other people can use it if they like it. It would be nice if other people found it helpful, but regardless it's something that I intrinsically enjoy working on.
[1]: https://notabase.io
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Show HN: MdSilo – A knowledge silo runs in your web browser
You can try Notabase https://notabase.io/, which is better for self-hosting.
if you prefer mdSilo, need to toggle the Offline mode false in code and use the third-part services: vercel and supabase
What are some alternatives?
procs - Unix process&system query&format lib&multi-command CLI in Nim
budibase - Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes 🚀
shumai - Fast Differentiable Tensor Library in JavaScript and TypeScript with Bun + Flashlight
dflex - The sophisticated Drag and Drop library you've been waiting for 🥳
Programming-Language-Benchmark
slate - A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
axiom - A 64-bit kernel implemented in Nim
rich-markdown-editor - The open source React and Prosemirror based markdown editor that powers Outline. Want to try it out? Create an account:
awesome-python-typing - Collection of awesome Python types, stubs, plugins, and tools to work with them.
tiptap - The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans.
KaithemAutomation - Pure Python, GUI-focused home automation/consumer grade SCADA
quill - Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility.