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   tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 08:09:42 JST tech? no! man, see...

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   @deshipu this isn't strictly true, but I feel like a lot of the time people when say "systems language" what they actually mean "I'm going to make this harder than it needs to be so that you take me seriously"

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     ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ (deshipu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 08:09:43 JST ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ

     The concept of a "system programming language" was always suspicious to me. I feel like the best way of making an operating system is to start with a minimal virtual machine for some high-level language, and then write all the rest in that. Forth, LISP, Lua, whatever. It worked back when computers had a fraction of the speed and resources they have today, I don't see why it wouldn't work today.