Fug, I think I am a cranky old fart type already because I like to write code closer to the metal instead of using all the fancy new tooling.

Maybe I should swallow my pride and install vscode and try copilot or whatever it is kids these days are using.

Also I'm still using nano for all my text editing so I might be imposing a deeper limitation on myself than most minimalists. :P

@mauve The lower level you are, the less you have to worry about other peoples' code!

I just wish C was better.

@j3rn @mauve Can I show y'all this thing of mine? github.com/akkartik/mu

Low level: check (program with registers but get good error messages when you make mistakes)

Better C: check (memory-safe like Rust)

Few layers: check (exactly 3, and each built strictly using lower layers)

Here's a paper that tries to lay it all out: akkartik.name/akkartik-convivi

@akkartik @j3rn Any chance you have this in markdown or some other text format so I can more easily run it through my reader?

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@akkartik @j3rn Yeah LaTeX would be great :) PDFs are just uniquely hard.

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