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Nicklaus Wirth was right. I felt that the first time I used Lazarus/FreePascal, and felt it to be true the more of his works I read. Recently though, I think m

Nicklaus Wirth was right. I felt that the first time I used Lazarus/FreePascal, and felt it to be true the more of his works I read. Recently though, I think maybe the way to get off the "cycle of reincarnation" for this type of thinking is to do WASM - but I cannot abandon hardware like that. I am mentally incapable of accepting a spiritual machine that I cannot break with a hammer upon my desk; [I am] too primitive; an indestructible global computer that runs on other people's hardware for thousands of dollars of compute time and is slower than an RPi (like Ethereum) is anathema to me in some fundamental way. I still want to get that (Wirth was right) on a shirt with his face on it.

Rochus 3y ago
> Nicklaus Wirth was right In what respect in this context? I should have explicitly stated that "Hello.dll" is a .NET assembly, i.e. Oberon+ uses the Mono CLR to run and debug the Oberon+ code (but not the .NET framework); it can also generate C99 (as a substitute for AOT compilation), but here it is about the minimal size of a Hello World .NET binary. WASM and especially the WAMR runtime might be a good alternative to the Mono CLR in future, but today it's too slow and only a few architectures are supported (much less than Mono).