crazyminecuber

@vaxryy A crazy idea, but one possible solution is to implement a concept similar to the NixOS store, but on a RAM page level. So you just hash a collection of read only ram pages and if the hashes matches, they can be shared by both processes.

Now considering we have a ram shortage can someone riddle me this: When a C/++ app links to 20 libraries, totalling 200MB, and you launch two of them (or another app that links to the same libraries), you will be using 200MB for libraries. Those are cached by the kernel and reused. Buuut... since Rust has no libraries, if two Rust apps link against the same 200MB of libraries... they won't be reused, and thus more RAM usage. No? Does Rust do anything to improve this situation? I can see a lot of libraries in the C world linked by a lot of processes (glibc, stdlibc++, chromium stuff, gtk, qt, etc) where this optimization is very useful for minimizing RAM usage.

@mitchellh Is the point of zig not that it should have c-interop so good that you do not need to write any bindings? What makes it worth to make manual bindings in this case?

Here are some Zig bindings and a build file for Bellard's Micro QuickJS that I made. They cover nearly 100% of the public API. No stated purpose for this, I just decided to start the new year playing around with it since it recently came out. github.com/mitchellh/zig-…

@croloris Your first red flag was the fancy homepage. The best projects always have the ugliest websites or no website at all, because then you know that they are actually made by real engineers.

> new Zig project with fancy homepage, cool! > whole project is one single AI generated commit, uhmm... > no build.zig, only BUILD.bazel, 💀

@FFmpeg where is the fortran?

This is what peak video codec should look like. (It's not FFmpeg, it's dav1d)

@zuhaitz_dev just write llvm ir

C is like portable assembly. GCC can target architectures like: AArch64 AMDGCN (AMD GPGPUs) ARC ARM AVR Blackfin C6X (TI DSP) DEC Alpha Epiphany (Adapteva) FRV H8/300 HPPA (PA-RISC) IA-64 (Intel Itanium) LoongArch M68k (Motorola 68000 series) MicroBlaze (Xilinx FPGA) MIPS MMIX MSP430 Nios II (Altera/Intel FPGA) NVPTX (NVIDIA GPGPUs) OpenRISC PowerPC (including RS/6000) RISC-V RL78 RX S/390 (IBM z/Architecture) SH (SuperH) SPARC SPU (Cell Broadband Engine) VAX x86 (including i386, x86-64, AMD64) Xtensa ...

@awesomekling @FrameworkPuter I got it, but after a week it's just like any other laptop. I think the mic, cooling solution and speakers are badly designed. Other than that, it's a fine laptop. Once something breaks, I might be happy that I got a framework, but won't know until then.

Should I get a @FrameworkPuter laptop? Looks like people are having fun with them and I'm feeling the FOMO 😅

@myWimberleyTech @lauriewired Sure about that? I'd say that the Nix/NixOS project was a good decade before debian started thinking about reproducible builds.

@lauriewired Reproducible builds. Debian was a pioneer in it.

Open Source isn't going to help. There's a way to invisibly compromise all software. A perfect, self-replicating "sin" passed down for generations of compilers. It's not just theoretical, and Ken Thompson showed us how.

@lauriewired I would say that Nix/Guix approach is the closest we come to solve the world bootstrap problem. Guix has managed to reduce their bootstrap binary blobs impressively small! guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/t…

@svpino ragebait, not falling for it. Python is interpreted and not translatable to direct machine code. Thus very unsuitible for operating system like things.

I just realized that Python might be the last programming language we would ever need to build software. Most powerful tech stack today: • Python • English • Your favorite LLM

@TheGingerBill We say it because it actually does. No other system can reproducibly bootstrap the entire world of open source software from a small binary blob with the most essential unix tools. It is quite orthogonal to solving the dependency hell issue for a single project.

This is an honest thing but can people stop saying Nix or NixOS are the "solution"? Or even recommending it. Like I said in my recent article "Package Managers are Evil", Nix is only a solution to the pains of being in dependency hell.

@croloris Have you looked into anubis?

The first ziglang.org outage ziglang.org/news/first-out…

@TheGingerBill So my bash one-liner is a large project because 1 <1M

Nomenclature for project sizes in lines of code: <100 - Script <1K - Tiny <10K - Small <100K - Medium <1M - Large >1M - Huge >1B - Google

@jessfraz Wait till ya start having to recompile glibc...

@Jonathan_Blow Hitman?

What game should I play tonight that does *not* have squiggledybopper stat increases? P.S. I played this demo last night and it is really good for a Snake Puzzle game... try it out if you want. It does not even have stat-increasing bingerbombles. store.steampowered.com/app/3350860/Tr…

@Jonathan_Blow Get to work?

@rfleury I guess I don't understand what you want to achieve then. There is also an option to make it auto install all programs without typing the "," by integrating into your shells "not found" function if that is what you mean.

@crazyminecuber No, it doesn't, not even close

Now imagine a web-style distribution model, but for regular native programs. You don’t even have to manage the lifetime of the executable file at that point. You just type a name, whether you’ve previously installed it or not, and then go.

@rfleury If you have Nix installed on linux, this basically does what you want to achieve github.com/nix-community/…

@crazyminecuber I didn't even mention reproducibility.

@rfleury Nix, docker and static executable are basically the only reproducible software distribution methods that exits. Everything else is fairy tales today.

@crazyminecuber Not even close

@FFmpeg Just learn 74 series logic gates first and build your own assembly language.

Just the first one