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  • I’ll give some bullet points that might be of interest, I agree that they need a funky infographic or similar.

    • it’s a build system itself, it doesn’t need make or whatever and compilation speeds are similar to ninja

      • which means it can do things like distributed building
      • and implement local caching, like ccache but supporting msvc as well as gcc/clang (actually msvc might be disabled at the moment)
      • … likewise remote caching, like Mozilla’s sscache for teams (again supporting msvc/gcc/clang)
    • it has its own package manager but also works with pretty much all other popular package managers

      • the build system will default to any matching installed system libs unless you say otherwise ({ system = false} on a per-included package basis)
      • it downloads and installed necessary packages when first building a project
      • package manager can use pre-compiled Windows artefacts
      • can use the hosted online repo, or our own online or local repos (multiple if we want)
      • location of alternative repos can be set in xmake.lua file or configured on command line (or config file).
    • can configure project with a TUI menu xmake f --menu

    It just feels more straightforward and logical to me too. I know that’s subjective, but the objective part of that is it’s a unified build system, cache system and package manager that sets out to work with other tools.

    (edited: tidied bullet lists)



  • Python is already popular so Mojo making that ecosystem much faster, safer and easier to deploy could be game changing when it’s fully formed. There are also armies of existing Python developers out there for businesses to tap into and it’s an easy language to pick up.

    On their roadmap page, it looks like C++ interop is going to be a first class citizen too, further opening up the ecosystem to existing high performance libraries:

    Integration to transparently import Clang C/C++ modules. Mojo’s type system and C++’s are pretty compatible, so we should be able to have something pretty nice here. Mojo can leverage Clang to transparently generate a foreign function interface between C/C++ and Mojo, with the ability to directly import functions:

    from "math.h" import cos
    
    print(cos(0))
    

  • Like how OOP was the best thing ever for everything, and just now 30 years later is proven to be actually bad.

    Alan Kay coined the term 57 years ago and we have to look at the landscape back then to see just how much OOP has actually influenced pretty much all languages, including ones that distance themselves from the term now. Avoiding shared global state. Check. Encapsulating data and providing interfaces instead of always direct access. Check. Sending signals to objects/services for returned info. Check check check.


  • Windows shared libs could do with having an rpath equivalent for the host app. I tried to get their manifest doohickeys working for relative locations but gave up and still just splat install them in the exe directory.

    Aside from that shared libraries are great. Can selectively load/reload functions from them at runtime which is a fundamental building block of a lot of applications that have things like plugin systems or wrappers for different hardware etc. Good for easier LGPL compliance as well.


  • Even the phrase “Russian sympathizer” is propaganda. Simple messaging sinks in.

    I just have an interest in the wars around the world that the West (the UK, USA, Israel, France) are magically omnipresent in and around. With of course completely coincidental geopolitical prizes to win, as ‘we’ play Team NATO World Police around the world after the first rounds of our Confessions of an Economic Hitman tactics fail. The same old players pop up in every new episode of their perpetual war plan.

    This is another episode. All wrapped up in a completely independent narrative with a different cartoon mad man to fight and a nice humanitarian angle so that people get all emotionally attached and don’t join the dots.