Post #1308452

2026-02-19 14:03 UTC

@blinry Or have the entire system built around being interpreted like Python or C#. Maybe C# would even be a better option as it's JIT compiler is better in my eyes. And it integrates better with that XML based GUI definition language Microsoft had. Edit: WPF XAML was it.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-02-19 14:41

@agowa338 @blinry Wasn't C# simply a MS repackage of MS J++, the MS version of Java, because they were sued by Sun? Years ago I used to peer inside Java "jars" on XP and Ubuntu. I found C# far better than VB.net, but both inferior to VB6 for quick GUIs on SQL or simulating keypad and LCD of a microcontroller and prototyping the code. Then I went back to RF design and mostly abandoned programming apart from JAL on PIC18. But view source is very niche. You only want the overhead on a Dev's PC.

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2026-02-19 15:23

@agowa338 @blinry I used to have the dream of a runtime that worked like a dynamic language interpreter, but rather than being specific to one language each call could invoke a different interpreter for whichever language was needed for the method being called. My original goal was to not have to recreate every library in every language, but the more I thought about it the more other potential benefits I saw. Even wrote my undergraduate thesis about how it might be done

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