essial

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   by essial 1mo ago

   Didn't even know MoonBasic was a thing, that's funny! And yeah I understand on the 'run random binary' thing. The best I can do is run it against VirusTotal, which I've now done. That's fine though, there'
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   by essial 1mo ago

   Technical detail for anyone curious: The compiler pipeline is Tokenizer -> Parser -> SemanticAnalyzer -> Binder -> CEmitter -> NativeExecutableBuilder. It emits C and links against a bundled toolchain, so the output binary ha
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   Show HN: LunarBasic, a BASIC that compiles 2D games to native executables(lunarbasic.com)

   6 points by essial 1mo ago|3 comments
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   by essial 6y ago

   I'm the lead and I use OSX Catalina :)
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   by essial 6y ago

   Project lead here. I switched from C# to go for multiple reasons. One was that we were having strange platform-specific issues between different operating systems with the runtime. Another reason was due to some design issues causing the co