Julia got it right with its macro system. You can write embedded DSLs easily.

But they are still worse experience that dedicated, separate languages. Compare ModelingToolkit.jl with Modelica (ok, there are some differences in capacilities, but just compare how better is to express models in Modelica).

It should be paired with a cross-compiler.

I like it!

My only reservation is that Objective-C is not very well maintained by gcc.

What the post says is that you can do software engineering in C and be portable.

I agree with you. If the source code is there, theoretically is not abandonware, but handed to the community.

I see my donations are put to good use. I will continue this year too. Same for NetBSD.

It makes perfect sense to implement it in a high level language that allows understandability.

Very good contribution.

Thank you! That was exactly the goal. Modern PHP turned out to be surprisingly expressive for this kind of 'executable pseudocode'. Glad you appreciated it!

This should be called trust, because it does view the developer as evil.

I meant "it does not view"

Congratulations!

BTW is OrangePI V2 supported?

The Orange Pi RV2 (Ky X1) uses the Imagination BXE-2-32.

The good news is that firmware is available for that variant. The bad news is that Mesa currently lists the BXE-2-32 as 'unsupported / not under active development' (unlike the BXS-4-64 in the TH1520, which is active). https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/powervr.html

So while the kernel driver (drm/imagination) is the right path, the RV2 is a steeper hill to climb: it needs the SoC kernel plumbing and likely some work in Mesa.

Ouch!!!

I will have to wait then. I may choose a supported variant then.

This year will see the first chips with RVA23 support.

K3 (which succeeds K1 this story is about) is expected to be among them.

Yay!!!

Are the people behind this project the same as the Free95 team?

Isn't that the OS from the 1990's that never got anywhere, and then the same people made ReactOS?

googles

Ah, no, that was FreeWin95. What on earth is Free95, it feels like history repeating itself…

One month ago their site went dark

https://github.com/versoft-software/free95/

They also forked Uinxed kernel so as to run their userland.

I believe they are the same. Still, it makes sense what they are trying to do.

To be honest, this seems like a project by some kid or something that has absolutely no idea what they're doing. It's a little painful to witness.

I agree. I wrote an article saying so about 9 months ago.

As a little Yule gift, one of the creators wrote me a hatemail at Xmas telling me he still remembered and it still burned and what a bad person I was.

Well, he got his own back. I was hurt, too. Perhaps he thinks that makes us even. Share the pain.