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Don't know if it's worth pointing out, but Mir is Canonical's competitor to Wayland for Ubuntu's display server.
by Andrex 3y ago
Don't know if it's worth pointing out, but Mir is Canonical's competitor to Wayland for Ubuntu's display server.
- thaliaarchi 3y agoMIR for Ruby is in no way related to Canonical Mir.
- Andrex 3y agoIt's just weird to me, "Mir" is a pretty unique name, and there's two softwares out there using it.
- deadbeeves 3y agoConsidering it was first the name of a space station, and before that a Russian word, it's not such a unique name.
- taskforcegemini 3y agoalso a german word
- Conscat 3y agoWait till you hear that Rust and Zig's compilers both have their own "MIR".
- thaliaarchi 3y agoAdditionally, LLVM has MIR (Machine IR), which is what Zig's also stands for. There's a lot of M-starting compiler intermediate representations. This Ruby MIR is Medium Internal Representation. Rust's is Mid-level IR. Similarly, there's MLIR, which is usually expanded to Multi-Level Intermediate Representation.
- paulddraper 3y agoThere aren't that many three letter words
- laxd 3y agoJust learned that there was a language called DART in 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC
- bitwize 3y agoCMU's Common Lisp compiler is called Python.