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  • mccmcc@mastodon.social
    Oct 15, 2026, 12:18 AM

    "Computer" is `cat /dev/urandom | bash` and nothing else, forever

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  • bnuuybnuuy@mathstodon.xyz
    Oct 15, 2026, 12:28 AM

    @mcc i've... independently made the discovery that the current state of nim seems to be going in the direction of progressively turning into slop, when i looked into whether i wanna consider picking it up.
    it's not *super* obvious looking in from the outside, but this was the smoking gun for me (scroll down to the post by exelotl):
    forum.nim-lang.org/t/14160

    (also incidentally, good to learn @exelotl is also on fedi hiiiiii)

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  • mccmcc@mastodon.social
    Oct 15, 2026, 12:48 AM

    @jupiter @bnuuy @exelotl I mean what I actually did was stopped using nim around 2016 because their response to "the js output doesn't really work" was "yeah, we only really care about asm.js now" which was about four to six years too early to play that

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  • geckoexelotl@raru.re
    Oct 15, 2026, 2:24 AM

    @mcc @jupiter @bnuuy there is a fork called nimskull by former Nim contributors who got fed up at the leadership, and seems like an overall healthier project, but as they aim to shed cruft and gain rigour/correctness there will be breaking changes and it may be a while before it becomes a stable foundation for any project.

    The devs don't like or use AI but I wasn't able to convince them to adopt a no-AI policy, so its a bit in limbo at the moment in that regard.

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