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by bakul 3y ago
This is the default but can be changed. I use clang on FreeBSD as a few tests break under tcc.
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by bakul 3y ago
Ignore all the pro/con noise. git clone its repo, compile it locally and play with it. Write some code. You’ll be pleasantly surprised (at least I was). Its progress is pretty good (few tests break now and then and once in a while the
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by bakul 3y ago
I like many things about the language but haven’t yet written a significant amount of code in it to properly evaluate it. V feels a lot like Go. Plus a language that can replace C/C++ for bare metal programming.
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by bakul 3y ago
Processor "optimizations" can produce surprising effects. The problem is these optimizations are not programmatically accessible to C (or most modern programming languages) given their simple memory model. Deterministic performa
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by bakul 3y ago
From a Guardian article: A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “Since 2015 the UK has given no financial aid to the government of India. Most of our funding now is focused on business investments which help create new markets and jobs for the
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by bakul 3y ago
One consequence of this in nvi (& IIRC vi) you can do <n>i<txt><esc> to repeat <txt> <n> times, just as you can repeat most any command with prefixing it with a count.
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by bakul 3y ago
Which part? Designing or implementing or something else?
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by bakul 3y ago
I'd love to see an OS with a Unix API but plan9 like kernel! I will never get around to writing one myself though!
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by bakul 3y ago
Thanks. rxv64 kernel (the much harder part), syslib and ulib are in rust. Replacing userland C with rust would not be hard. Ideally a general purpose OS should support programs written in any of the common programming languages so it would
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by bakul 3y ago
How does this compare with https://github.com/dancrossnyc/rxv64 ? From its README.md: rxv64 is a pedagogical operating system written in Rust that targets multiprocessor x86_64 machines. It is a reimplementation of the
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by bakul 3y ago
Behlendorf's comment in that thread seems to be talking about linux integration. My point was this is an older issue, going back to the Sun days. See for instance this thread in where McVoy complains about the same issue! https:/
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by bakul 3y ago
I suspect the underlying issues for not unifying the two have more to do with the ZFS design than anything to do with Linux. It may be the codebase is far too large at this stage to make such a fundamental change.
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by bakul 3y ago
Is integrating ARC with the page cache a lost cause? If not, may be Netflix can fund it!
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by bakul 3y ago
They could have just asked.... Most who grew up in the subcontinent know this.
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by bakul 3y ago
Not sure what kind of problem you are talking about but there are a few things you can try: Look at it from different angles to understand the problem better. Understand its properties better. Look for its underlying causes. That is, may be
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by bakul 3y ago
Nothing wrong with spending one's life building a boat if that is what floats your boat. It is the journey, not the destination, where you spend the most time so might as well make it a happy one!
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by bakul 3y ago
The idea is quite old -- See for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods For an example see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Development_Method#Bank... The idea is to model the k
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by bakul 3y ago
There is a third way: define, explore and build a model of the problem space your program is supposed to be addressing. This forces you to understand its properties much better. Once you understand it better you can likely implement in any
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by bakul 4y ago
how would the “rape culture” be influenced by india stopping its space program? This is like saying the US should stop spending money on lots of things until the gun violence problem is solved.
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by bakul 4y ago
Thanks! In Gujarati we call it "meettho limdo" or sweet neem. It is dark green but not black (except when left in the 'frig for a few days or on the plant when it is sick!).
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by bakul 4y ago
Supposedly curry comes from the tamil word (transliterated as) "kaRi" which may be related to black pepper (native to India) to spice things up. In all Indian languages the color black has a very similar name (in Gujarati Kāḷī (fe
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by bakul 4y ago
Recently I became aware of “FAC: A Functional APL Language” a 1986 paper by Hai-Chen Tu and Alan Perlis[1]. Unlike traditional APLs it allows you to define your own “operators” (second order functions), such as “x (F SWAP) y: y F x”, where
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by bakul 4y ago
Very rarely jain monks would fast unto death (sallekhana), but not set themselves on fire, as that would be considered a form of violence. And ahimsa (non-violence) is absolutely fundamental to Jainism. Sallekhana would be somewhat akin to
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by bakul 4y ago
I don't think the author is necessarily excluding FP as much as saying intrinsically it doesn't provide anything more than functional composition for what the author calls "architecture oriented programming". That is, wh
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by bakul 4y ago
I think the author is saying that in order to build larger structures out of modular structures you connectors (you can think of glue as one kind). As an example think of the many different connectors that Lego Technic provides. Unix pi
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by bakul 4y ago
> James Gosling, being much older than I was, he had lots of experience with SmallTalk and Simula68, which we also borrowed from liberally. Simula67. It was an almost superset of Algol60 & had nothing to do with Algol68. Smalltalk wa
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by bakul 4y ago
Not even that as it doesn't have function calls or even print! See Feeley's response for the proper context.
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by bakul 4y ago
This doesn't have types, functions, arrays or much error checking. It has one char identifiers. I don't think we should read into this any more than a tiny example or experiment by the author.
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by bakul 4y ago
May be not with filesystem semantics but I would think providing atomic updates would be a very useful thing.
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by bakul 4y ago
To update a critical file atomically we used to first create an updated copy on the same filesystem and then rename it. Is this not possible on GCP?

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