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by mhd 4y ago
CPAN was roughly contemporary, and about at the time when "downloading" became an option. But on the general notion, I'd vehemently disagree. Not having stuff in your standard library but spread about is one of the worst thin
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by mhd 4y ago
Yeah, Modula-3 had everything that the new kids like Java/C#/Go try to sell you years before, but I think Trestle would need some modernization before it could keep up visually with Qt/Gtk/etc (assuming that you can stil
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by mhd 4y ago
If we're going backwards in time, Algol-W should be on the list (there's a transpiler called "awe", but no actual frontend for gcc/llvm/qbe).
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by mhd 4y ago
Bad timing, basically. By the time Modula-2 appeared, Pascal was rather popular, and there were a lot of extensions to the official standard that mirrored the main features of Modula-2. I think it was UCSD Pascal that introduced "Units
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by mhd 4y ago
I’m getting a lot of mileage out of this simple bookmarklet found here: https://maya.land/bookmarklets/readable/ Centered max-width without going all out reader mode.
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by mhd 4y ago
I’ve been quite impressed by the Gemini browser LaGrange[1]. Does it’s own antialiased text rendering straight to SDL. Automatic site coloring as an option. Would be neat to see something like this with basic HTML 3-ish support (basic table
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by mhd 4y ago
Really? Aren't there a lot of slapped together LLVM frontends these days?
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by mhd 4y ago
Oh, nice, I'll have to play around with that a bit.
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by mhd 4y ago
Yeah, getting the most use out of your paper (or picking said size in the first place) was a time-honored tradition of print typography. And sure, not 1:1 applicable to the screen. I do think that the screen typography department has been s
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by mhd 4y ago
It seems we get all kinds of Windows emulation, but was there ever a marginally worked out attempt of "just" providing the necessary libraries for a basic Win32 application, open source or commercial? So not aiming at a binary-lev
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by mhd 4y ago
Yeah, I remember a lot of AMOS-hostility from Amiga developers back then. Did someone actually write demos/intros in it back then or would the collective wrath of the assembly programmers be too much? ;) (Along with AMOS, MUI was often
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by mhd 4y ago
I always considered Electron and Qt/QML doing the inverse, just with more BCPL-ish languages.
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by mhd 4y ago
Thereabouts. I think the libc5 to glibc2 switch was a few years after that. Last release of Mastodon Linux is 2002, a lot later than I would've thought. https://www.pell.portland.or.us/~mastodon/
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by mhd 4y ago
I remember when the switch to ELF (and glibc?) was a big topic. There even was a Linux distribution that wanted to keep the old ways as long as possible, even talking about forking the kernel. Mastodon Linux, I think.
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by mhd 4y ago
It's a game of definitons, but for a proper desktop PC, wouldn't you need a socketable CPU? Mainboard, CPU and probably GPU as separate units doesn't seem to be something the ARM world is aiming at. (Neither does Apple, but t
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by mhd 4y ago
I think it's a lot less useful for that. The problem is that doing that with C is that you're already strapping some lead to your feet from the very start, so a lot of what CII does is removing those weights by adding stuff from o
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by mhd 4y ago
One can only learn a language one time, so I've got a hard time recommending first books. But I definitely second the recommendation for the second book here ;) Hanson's style is a bit idiosyncratic, with his somewhat Modula-3-ish
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by mhd 4y ago
> A slightly more modern equivalent of this is a 2009 Mac mini running Snow Leopard. You can find these machines for around $50 on eBay and they are very snappy. I just did that, last Mini that still has a optical drive, the Core 2 Duo i
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by mhd 4y ago
I understand the need for good documentation and tooling, but "languages as a product" are one of the more horrible aspects of the current dev environment. First of all, this mostly means that compiler and language are the same pr
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by mhd 4y ago
Like the Blit and a lot of Wirth's ETH Zurich machines? I think there was some Swedish Unix 68k system that had a pivot CRT rather early on, too.
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by mhd 4y ago
Any interesting extensions? You tend to find a lot of those in Pascal implementations of that age to fix the shortcomings of the language.
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by mhd 4y ago
Wasn't Erik Naggum doing something like this, too?
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by mhd 4y ago
I think a few of us thought about that. It seems the "Hello" System[1] wants to got that way. Write most applications in PyQt, have the source somewhat accesible (I would think a direct menu item or button in the "About"
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by mhd 4y ago
I think the project's name is referring to the unreleased "predecessor" of Windows 95, which existed quite a few years before that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)
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by mhd 4y ago
It's got about the same hype that node or Go got, so it's not like you need a high level of perfection for that. Never mind that some of that is coming from a crowd I'm not too fond of. Personally, I don't think it'
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by mhd 4y ago
Oh, I think I remember the original Drivey and was following the dev blog for a while back then. But I think in the end, it didn't go anywhere (no pun intended).
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by mhd 4y ago
Hmm, how does this look on a regular 80x25 terminal?
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by mhd 4y ago
Sutter might be a bigger name, but I think this has about the same chances as Damian Conway's SPECS[1]. [1]: https://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal....
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by mhd 4y ago
Oh, sorry, I meant as an alternative to Figma, not the Adobe Suite itself. But yeah, I dabbled a bit with Affinity Designer. It is quite focused on the "PageMaker" side of things, i.e. not for medium to large documents (IIRC still
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by mhd 4y ago
So, what's our alternatives? As others, I'm both pessimistic about the future and increasingly anti-Adobe (last thing I liked from them was non-subscription Framemaker and maybe PS 5.5). Penpot? https://penpot.app/

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