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

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) I was hoping to strip out Autoconf and pack it all into one HUGE C source file, and be done with everything but a single shell script and/or windows batch file to compile it, so it could be cross-platform. In order to start work on that, I was willing to switch to Linux (Ubuntu)... I 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. WikidPad is written in Python, so you would think cross-platform would be a slam dunk. The issue is that the wxWindows library it uses, for reasons I'm sure they think are sufficient, changed the names and nature of variables in some calls. Because you have to build from source, that means someone has to update it to fix those breaking references. I don't have the skill to do so. The community seems to have moved on from WikidPad despite it's once wide popularity. On Windows, you just download an old EXE installer and you're good to go. So finally... I'm back in Windows 10, and decided to try to craft together a twitter clone in Python 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] There are a ton of Python libraries that seemed like they'd be trivial to hook together, but when I tried to use Flask, the build system issues broke things, so again, faced with the same issues... I wrote the above "Ask HN" [0] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957273 [2] https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad [3] https://github.com/mikewarot/iceberg/blob/main/MANIFESTO.md https://github.com/mikewarot/iceberg/blob/main/MANIFESTO.md