Readit NewsHave you seen that Mozilla has basically become an ad agency?
Initially was aiming to use MLIR or at least LLVM but will probably try to handroll to a) reduce dependencies and b) as a learning experience.
The bootstrapped is written in CL with no dependencies and hopefully soon it will be self-hosted.
I have no idea what happens with the actual physical location but at least from the beneficiary’s perspective it seemed fine to just ignore it.
From their update in february[1] this year it seems like it is basically complete but personal things got in the way and maybe they struggle to set up the systems for custom builds, ecommerce, etc. to ship it. People are constantly asking for the release, so I think it will eventually arrive, but good things often take longer than expected. :)
My occasional moral dilemma is idle power usage of overprovisioned resources, but we've found some interesting things to throw at idle hardware to ease our conscience about it.
But the ecosystem that exists around the JVM also comes with both a bunch of awesome libraries, and a whole bunch of cruft and ceremony.
If, like Clojure, you're trying to pull in compatibility with JVM libraries, then you pull all that in. So now if you want a little C in your Clojure, you have to go through JNA or something.
I would like the option of going native with a Clojure dialect, without passing through either JVM (Clojure) or JS (ClojureScript).
That's just part of the puzzle. What makes CPC different from most dictatorships is like NK or SU is that most of ruling elite of CPC is made up of engineers. Along with mandatory CPC ideology leaning, they also have notion that a developed nation is one that builds things. Bankers and Lawyers are ranked way down on power rankings.
On the other hand, most of American ruling elite are lawyers or bankers. So their worldview is mostly rule lawyering, interest earning, hedge fund etc.. Power brokers in these fields make the rules. Builders and engineers rank pretty low in power totem pole.