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   David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 21:17:34 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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   @xgranade @whitequark

   Go is what happens when you use C for decades and come up with a load of great ideas to improve it, and then implement them. Along the way, taking great care to never look at any ways other people have improved on C.

   It is a language that containers every good idea Rob Pike ever had, and none of the good ideas people who are not Rob Pike ever had. Which would be more excusable if it weren’t the second language to merit that description.

   It turns out that there are a lot more smart people in the world who are not Rob Pike than who are.

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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 10:00:00 JST clacke

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   "The thread about Itanium" is this one, lamenting the lack of exotic CPUs and how we're trapped in C-driven ISAs, which traps us in C, which traps us in C-driven ISAs:

   libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-8…

   If you support C in a performant way, you stay commercially viable. One way to still innovate is to glue two ISAs together, which I believe is what the #itanium did.

   LoongISA is showing another way; extending the ISA with some help instructions without fully emulating in hardware. I wonder if the C compiler for LoongISA benefits from these x86 help instructions even when compiling native C.

   It sounds like I'm equating x86 and C here, but I'm not really. I do assume though that MIPS is less C-driven than x86, which I assume is severely C-driven. Please jump in if that's all wrong.

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   kshah (kshah@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 13:20:21 JST kshah

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   @whknott

   Thomas trundled onwards. He liked this patrol route, it had some of the last surviving trees amid grey steel. He liked them better than the receding shorelines on Route C.

   It almost distracted him from the questions that ate away at him lately: What was his purpose? Why do this rut day in and day out? Surely there must be something greater to which he could aspire?

   He resolved to, on his return, ask his other tank brethren what they thought.

   #visualwritingprompt #scifi #writing