So then I guess C is salamander. Also lays eggs and lives by a pool, but doesn’t do anything extra, and is a necessary step before most of the other modern languages.

COBOL is a coelacanth. To everyone’s surprise, they’re still out there. We thought they were an old, very extinct example of a non-terrestrial lobe-finned fish, but they actually hung on in some odd environments. They cause massive indigestion to anyone that has to consume them.

If Node is a mosquito, Javascript itself is another hymenopteran: the yellow jacket wasp. Just as hated, and with a tendency to injure handlers, but widely successful and defended as filling an actual useful role in nature. They build delicate, arguably pretty nests.

Roaches don’t spread nearly as much disease as 'squiters, and IIRC are actually important in some ecosystems.

What, could you have done better in 70-whatever?

I’ve definitely never been guilty of this. /s

Alright, I’ll never, ever write something this way now. Good to know.

That’s a good point. Supporting all hardware in particular is a pretty big ask. Maybe you could cleverly fit memory management into a small amount of code, but a pile of arbitrary standards can’t really be meaningfully compressed.

In the video he states the OS he uses works on the original Pentium processor which came out in 1993. Four years after Reagan went out of office.

I was wondering. That didn’t look like an 80’s computer.

I take it all the important stuff stays in America, though. There’s a chance you couldn’t even tell I’m Canadian if you met me, but there’s still senior devs earning 60k up here.

In every country but the US, really. Someday, big tech companies will realise that a person in any other Western country can code just as well for half the price, but for now they won’t even consider it cause 'Murica.

It should be possible, right? It’s not like we’ve gotten worse at coding. All the bloat is a function of people not caring, and to some degree different requirements.

I should check if lemmy.sdf.org is back online. Retrocomputing would love this.

Mentioning @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org, so I can find this easier.

Lol, I’m already up and running. It’s pretty good, and I can actually use my mouse with it in bash. Protip, it seems very important to use the right window size. It’s good enough to do a lot of normal browsing, but openstreetmap understandably had broken controls. The only local issue is that I can’t see what I’m entering into the URL bar.

It’s also designed to run distributed, so you can use shitty bandwidth between a rendering machine and the display machine. I should try fitting it into a radio channel or phone connection or something, haha. I also wonder if it could be adapted to work with Tor Browser.

I’m absolutely fascinated if somebody can point me to that.

How well did it render most sites, compared to the other CLI browsers?

Nice! I knew it had to be a thing.

Did you do much browsing? Lynx is a thing, but it can’t do JavaScript.

Come to think of it, is there a CLI Lemmy client?

Third options?

Mmm, race conditions, just like mama used to make.

The thing people always overlook is that these legacy systems are only still running because they’re super important. Nobody’s hiring a junior COBOL dev to maintain NORAD, and hopefully nobody’s contemplating putting ChatGPT in charge either.

The move if you want this kind of job is to learn a language that’s not quite a dinosaur yet, and have 20 years experience in 20 years. Perl or PHP maybe.

Actually, I bet you could implement that in less. You should be able to legibly get several weights in one line.

Hmm, let me try this.

Edit: Nice! For anyone else, just copy the link from the source of the comment.

I… Actually don’t know.

The real time clock continues to move in real time under reasonable conditions. If it’s in a weird year it’s either because you’ve decided to run a disk you found in a cave, left by the Ancient Ones, or you’re cheating at Animal Crossing.

I’m a little unclear on how the rest of the clocks typically work together. If your program is drawing from one that gets stopped for a while, I guess yeah, a minute could totally be weeks long, and I’m in the picture as a falsehood believer.

Actually, while mathematically heavy, it’s easy to measure in GR, assuming you’ve got a metric solved (If you don’t, you’re fucked. That shit is intractable to the point where you can name every exact solution on one page, and inexact solutions can just be lies) However, you may have to ask additional questions about what sort of time you want, which probably stems from why you need it.