Post #1871186
2026-04-08 15:46 UTC
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@poleguy@mastodon.social 2026-04-08 16:19
@dpp @elizayer @hbons I looked at your eBPF to FPGA project. (I'm an FPGA guy by day.) I think it is pretty clear _what_ you want it to do, but I think I'm struggling to understand the motivation. Maybe you just haven't got to writing a README.md where you would record such motivation, but I would love to understand why you wrote this or what end application you have in mind.
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@dpp@mastodon.social 2026-04-08 17:53
@poleguy @elizayer @hbons I’ve been working on meowscript on and off for 15 years. I originally presented it as Visi at the emerging languages summit 2011 where I shared the stage with Rust and Julia (maybe it was 2012) In a few months I was able to iterate on the prototype multiple times (eg integrating unit types). The ability to throw away bad ideas quickly rather than sunk costing suboptimal designs has been liberating
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@dpp@mastodon.social 2026-04-08 17:56
@poleguy @elizayer @hbons I wouldn’t have started on MeowOS but for having a tool that could rapidly iterate on machine crashes and remediate the issues. Once again the freedom to explore and the ability to say “try these three approaches and show me the performance differences” while I looked at the code complexity differences.