Post #1308482
2026-02-19 15:23 UTC
@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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@agowa338@chaos.social 2026-02-19 15:24
@ShadSterling @blinry Sounds like you'd want to write a JIT compiler for C tbh...
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2026-02-19 22:13
@ShadSterling @agowa338 @blinry that's one of the very long term goals of my post-scarcity computing project, but it's not one I expect to hit in my lifetime. "To summarise, again: Code is data. The internal representation of data is Don't Know, Don't Care. The output format of data is not constrained by the input format; it should suit the use to which it is to be put, the person to whom it is to be displayed...." /Continued