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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 04:32:18 JST pistolero

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   @latein @Suiseiseki @bonkers @nigger
   
   > I started working on my own language
   
   This is a fun thing to do.
   
   > I've got picrel to read first before the CSP text but I will do that, sounds like it'll be invaluable for when I start writing schedulers and whatnot
   
   I think so. I think this is a really good read on it: http://www.emulators.com/nx_toc.htm , and specifically if you read none of the other stuff, like, if you start with this, you'll get the main idea: http://www.emulators.com/docs/nx25_nostradamus.htm , and https://web.archive.org/web/20080201171658/http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2007-September/000871.html is also very good. I think if you can wrap your head around those two things, you've got a really good idea of how a bytecode VM works and what the practical constraints are and what makes them slow and how to unslow them. jonesforth is an excellent read, which is why I mirror it everywhere: https://git.freespeechextremist.com/gitweb/?p=jonesforth , you wanna start with the .s file ( https://git.freespeechextremist.com/gitweb/?p=jonesforth;a=blob;f=jonesforth.S;h=45e6e854a5d2a4c3f26af264dfce56379d401425;hb=HEAD ).
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     Protoss (latein@cawfee.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 07:34:50 JST Protoss

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     @p @nigger @Suiseiseki @bonkers this is not a bytecode VM, such resources are still interesting but this is a ast walking VM, with fundamental semantics identical to C's so that it'll be trivial to transpile to C and JIT hot loops into machine code that way, even without giving JIT explicit VM support beyond FFI.
     this is the only reason I'd bother as "low level lisp with C constructs as primitives" doesn't seem to be a thing yet. well, except for carp but that sounds like it replaced GC herpes with mandatory ownership and borrow checking turbo-AIDS, when my original purpose was just an ergonomic C wrapper
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