2022-08-31 13:28:58 <veltas      > Anyone working on anything FORTH related?
2022-08-31 13:30:24 <lagash      > veltas: I've tried and so far haven't succeeded at packaging another Forth compiler for Guix
2022-08-31 13:33:51 <lagash      > GNU Guix. And 4tH.
2022-08-31 13:39:11 <remexre     > I'm working on removing the parts of my Forth that're making direct Linux syscalls and defining the set of OS APIs I actually need
2022-08-31 13:40:19 <remexre     > which is a problem since I'm finding myself bikeshedding "okay well Unix would be somewhat cleaner if it did this" a lot...
2022-08-31 13:40:56 <thrig       > but then you'd break dd(1) or something so that's right out
2022-08-31 13:41:53 <remexre     > hah, well I'm just choosing what I expose from the underlying OS, so I'm probably fine? and I've got a way to do a raw syscall anyway if user code ends up wanting it
2022-08-31 13:43:11 <thrig       > (the shell used to allow env=42 assignments anywhere in the cli, but dd, so those got moved to only before the command)
2022-08-31 13:44:11 <remexre     > TIL; that's kinda sad-funny
2022-08-31 13:50:38 <crc         > I'm almost always working on forth things :)
2022-08-31 13:51:51 <thrig       > or "we didn't want to break early C programs, therefore ..."
2022-08-31 13:54:31 <eris[m]123  > im making a burrito, but i suppose thats more haskell than forth