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Thanks for your work on BQN Marshall. Can it run on the desktop though? I know little about JS, but kind of assume it needs a browser? My only experience with J

Thanks for your work on BQN Marshall. Can it run on the desktop though? I know little about JS, but kind of assume it needs a browser? My only experience with JS on the desktop is via bloated electron apps. I always thought a single file executable would be best. Is that possible?

mlochbaum 5y ago
There are multiple VMs. The JS one does run offline with Node.js (it's one file to implement BQN and one for Node-specific stuff like command-line and filesystem interaction), but it's not designed for speed. CBQN is what you want. EDIT: Just run make, which will pull from a bytecode branch if necessary. It doesn't ship with bytecode, so currently you have to bootstrap once with either dzaima/BQN or Node; at some point I'm sure we'll publish a full release that can be compiled with C alone for bootstrapping. Further details at https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/running.html https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/running.html, and feel free to contact me or join the forums for help getting set up!
- mlochbaum 5y ago
  EDIT: No longer necessary; see edit above. Updated this gist, so you can also copy the bytecode (into the commented files in src/gen in the CBQN repository) from here: https://gist.github.com/mlochbaum/7208fa5a4dd767102f9a99b3637ed924 https://gist.github.com/mlochbaum/7208fa5a4dd767102f9a99b363...
  - 7thaccount 5y ago
    Thanks for reaching out. I'll def keep watching the project. Really happy to see there is a C version. What is the roadmap for I/O and common data formats support on the C side (like csv, json, xml...etc), or do you get all of that with the bootstrapping?
    - dzaima 5y ago
      There already is some basic file I/O in CBQN (though not complete yet). Format parsing isn't hard to do in BQN itself, and finishing the base implementation is a priority over fancy built-in interfaces for now.

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Thanks for your work on BQN Marshall. Can it run on the desktop though? I know little about JS, but kind of assume it needs a browser? My only experience with J

by 7thaccount 5y ago

mlochbaum 5y ago
There are multiple VMs. The JS one does run offline with Node.js (it's one file to implement BQN and one for Node-specific stuff like command-line and filesystem interaction), but it's not designed for speed. CBQN is what you want. EDIT: Just run make, which will pull from a bytecode branch if necessary. It doesn't ship with bytecode, so currently you have to bootstrap once with either dzaima/BQN or Node; at some point I'm sure we'll publish a full release that can be compiled with C alone for bootstrapping. Further details at https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/running.html https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/running.html, and feel free to contact me or join the forums for help getting set up!
- mlochbaum 5y ago
  EDIT: No longer necessary; see edit above. Updated this gist, so you can also copy the bytecode (into the commented files in src/gen in the CBQN repository) from here: https://gist.github.com/mlochbaum/7208fa5a4dd767102f9a99b3637ed924 https://gist.github.com/mlochbaum/7208fa5a4dd767102f9a99b363...
  - 7thaccount 5y ago
    Thanks for reaching out. I'll def keep watching the project. Really happy to see there is a C version. What is the roadmap for I/O and common data formats support on the C side (like csv, json, xml...etc), or do you get all of that with the bootstrapping?
    - dzaima 5y ago
      There already is some basic file I/O in CBQN (though not complete yet). Format parsing isn't hard to do in BQN itself, and finishing the base implementation is a priority over fancy built-in interfaces for now.