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We got a spec for Assemblersky. Will be a weekend project. Cancel Easter :) And probably Midsummer too…
We got image composer and decoder plugged in in dev env, but will let this first open version breathe first. ASCII or early Apple algo
Fortran-fast feed builder probably in next open version. It crunches fast
Morning, 9 o’clock in Sweden, coffee and check-the-feed-on- Fortransky-time :)
We built Cobolsky. Will go public soon. Parallelly too curious on Fortran. The world is better with a Fortran-based social network client in it :)
When we are building the feed composer, in next version, Fortran will be great for the algorithm etc.
Keeping the ancient languages alive. I built some Cobol stuff many years ago. Back at it again. Rusty.
Both Cobolsky and Fortransky looks great on Swordfish90’s cool-retro-term, but we are building our own terminal for Fortransky too. There is a blog post with screenshots over at Patreon/formerlab
Can’t get enough Fortran
If you don't mind me asking, why is the world better with more Fortran-based software?
so it deserves to be kept alive. We owe a great deal to the people who wrote it in the 1950s I guess
It's part of the lineage, yeah, probably started with Algol though? Fast I guess is always nice, but I'm not sure that's enough to keep it alive solely for that, at least to me.
Out of curiosity, does your implementation use CODASYL?
(For people that don't pay much attention to historical software systems, most CODASYL implementations were similar to JSON document databases, so going that way isn't as crazy as it sounds.)
No CODASYL, the JSON parser is hand-rolled Fortran with a depth-tracking key scanner
CODASYL not a crazy direction for the feed composer
Got more depth to explore here, still early :)
Good you raised the topic, can write a blog post on it when we ship Cobolsky. Will be a proof of concept repo. Fortransky is the one
(If AT Proto did fixed-width records instead of JSON, COBOL would be formidable)
why not? the language is straightforward and loops are fast. It is portable and your code will work unchanged for the next 50 years. It may be a bit verbose, but that's not a big deal with today's tooling.
Like all the 3 of them they added in the last 30 years, and that compiler vendors are not enforcing anyway because they don’t want to annoy their users?
Windows’ backward compatibility is a joke compared to Fortran.
Fortransky benchmarks pending
the feed scorer will have real numbers worth reporting
Whenever time allows in future: Fortran vs Go vs Python
You hit l+ENTER to like a post. If anyone replies from Bluesky, we hit n+ENTER and see the notifs. And so on
Fortransky is 70% Fortran, rest is Rust, C and a tiny Python helper
One of the guys wrote 8xxROM some 10 years later.
Today known as U−Boot :)
Tangential, but to the author, are there any FORTRAN codebases you feel are well designed?
The original Manual exists as a PDF. Was it in a Stuttgart uni URL? Just a search away.
Late in Sweden, gotta Fortran tomorrow. Happy to continue discussion here tomorrow.
Also a great blogging platform: https://leaflet.pub
Here's a goal tracker: https://goals.garden
This one just dropped recently; it's 44 different atproto-related apps with a cyberpunk theme: https://www.aetheros.computer/
Lots others mentioned here: https://blueskydirectory.com/
Many devs reuse schema and write some twitter/bsky clone
Kind of search engine for my Blueaky likes
Gotta get off the timeline, germ has a messaging app, then there is Tangled and some more
We do Fortransky and Cobolsky now, got more ideas for the protocol than time :)
that's all I'm aware of
(edit) Oops, just saw that you mentioned it, confused by your first line then. Tangled is awesome!
It’s fun and it is appreciated by them, and the young ones who are curious
- VCs band together to fund something shiny.
- Devs love shiny, helping spread the something.
- VCs enschitify it to get their coins back.
The key insight is moving fingerprint spoofing from the JS level (which is itself detectable) down to the native C++ level. It's a fundamentally different approach.