{ "root_post_id": "1651268028795961344", "posts": [ { "post_id": "1650678968255913985", "author": "c0de517e/AngeloPesce", "handle": "kenpex", "text": "Nerds are crazy https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos", "timestamp": "2023-04-25 01:51:48", "media_urls": [], "reply_to_id": null, "quote_of_id": null, "metrics": { "reply_count": 8, "repost_count": 2, "like_count": 20, "view_count": 8728 } }, { "post_id": "1651056827839180800", "author": "Wade Brainerd", "handle": "wadetb", "text": "@kenpex I find the context hilarious, but Forth as asm-level-yet-very-usable-mini-OS has been done, as the boot firmware for OLPC (http://laptop.org) for many years. Looks like it's currently open sourced as https://github.com/openbios/openbios.", "timestamp": "2023-04-26 02:53:17", "media_urls": [], "reply_to_id": "1650678968255913985", "quote_of_id": null, "metrics": { "reply_count": 3, "repost_count": 0, "like_count": 3, "view_count": 568 } }, { "post_id": "1651253961524142081", "author": "c0de517e/AngeloPesce", "handle": "kenpex", "text": "@wadetb Yes of course. Forth is a language that took me a while to grok (re:the why it makes sense) - but once I understood the context it totally does. @NOTimothyLottes experiments w/it are also fun.", "timestamp": "2023-04-26 15:56:37", "media_urls": [], "reply_to_id": "1651056827839180800", "quote_of_id": null, "metrics": { "reply_count": 2, "repost_count": 0, "like_count": 1, "view_count": 324 } }, { "post_id": "1651268028795961344", "author": "NOTimothyLottes", "handle": "NOTimothyLottes", "text": "@kenpex @wadetb Can make a custom forth to binary in a few K. Bring up a runtime assembler in the language and do anything fast and simple from that point, load libraries, make system/dll C calls. 100,000x complexity reduction in compiler toolchain size.", "timestamp": "2023-04-26 16:52:31", "media_urls": [], "reply_to_id": "1651253961524142081", "quote_of_id": null, "metrics": { "reply_count": 1, "repost_count": 0, "like_count": 2, "view_count": 143 } }, { "post_id": "1651282559287042048", "author": "Wouter van Oortmerssen", "handle": "wvo", "text": "@NOTimothyLottes @kenpex @wadetb A few K? Why not just 1K? https://strlen.com/false-language/", "timestamp": "2023-04-26 17:50:16", "media_urls": [], "reply_to_id": "1651268028795961344", "quote_of_id": null, "metrics": { "reply_count": 0, "repost_count": 0, "like_count": 1, "view_count": 55 } } ], "source_url": "https://x.com/NOTimothyLottes/status/1651268028795961344" }