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@brandon Dunno. Probably will look at it after I’m done fuckin’ around with FreeBASIC.

@gudenau I had a bug like that in my terminal program, very early on in its development. It was, for me, an off-by-one error in my painting routine.

On the top, Konsole. On the bottom, MATE Terminal.

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@gudenau Probably a good chunk of it. However, the really nice thing is that FreeBASIC essentially just compiles to C anyway. It has a static support runtime that is included in the final program output, so the only dynamic linker dependencies are those for a standard C++ program, plus curses.

An interesting idea that works out strangely well, using #BASIC with #C. Plus it seems like it might be possible to use it with C++, based on how it generates the code for user-defined types.

Definitely worth looking into.

@brandon okiedokey.

@brandon Real Linux kernel!

Install an X11 server for Windows, have it listen on TCP, and enjoy the use of GUI apps inside the distro.

At least, that’s my plan.

@brandon About to try WSL2 myself...

I want to write a stub generator such that I could scan all of the libraries on a system and generate empty stubs that satisfy the linker.

Also, a way to use ELF and simply convert to the target system’s true binary format, such as Mach-O.

Someone should take #AllTray and port it to #Rust, and add support for #Wayland compositors. That someone will not be me. I just cannot, and I'm sure someone wants to take it over, somewhere on this planet.

@trickster @farhan It is opaque in that you have only indirect control of it. But even then, task switching has an impact on the cache. You only truly have any control at all under a single-tasking system where the working set size (including code) is smaller than the cache itself.

Otherwise, it is supposed to be opaque: otherwise you could break memory protection rules. No body needs an MMU just for L1 cache.

Crying woth a world-sixed headache only makes thingss wosre.

I feel like I have been run over by a mack truck. I don’t know how to feel this much, these meds gotta go.

@russsaidwords @m4iler And friends turn into disasters. Be careful, indeed.

@farhan *vet the scripts they run

@farhan To execute a script on the network without saving it. Saves clutter. One should still very the actors they run, though.

@tuxcrafting Seems about right...

@tuxcrafting As an aside, the same program under MUSL, statically linked, results in a very small binary—around 16KB. MUSL is “DOS-weight”, without the limitations implied by that term.

@izaya @tuxcrafting Not in the server space, no. But I thought we were discussing the desktop space.

@mdszy It took me about five working days to read the book, another couple to get familiar with the standard library. Making Web apps is easy. Making daemons is easy. Making a FUSE filesystem is easy.

Haven’t tried doing a GUI app yet. But I expect it’ll be easy. The macro system is very powerful, too, and allows you to easily embed resources such as HTML and images into the compiled program binary.