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What happened to the previous Mu that was a funny looking procedural language and why did you decide to switch directions?
by bsznjyewgd 7y ago
What happened to the previous Mu that was a funny looking procedural language and why did you decide to switch directions?
- akkartik 7y agoIt was a tree-walking interpreter and slow. I had to switch it to a form that could be compiled. This took me down a year-long road of learning about machine code. I would argue that the spirit of Mu has remained constant. Where it needs to change it does so without trying to stay 'compatible' with the past. It tries to present as little change atop the substrate as possible to be habitable (http://akkartik.name/post/habitability http://akkartik.name/post/habitability) The old version is available at https://github.com/akkartik/mu1 https://github.com/akkartik/mu1. I'll continue to support it.