Ollivier Robert 🇺🇦😷🌈♾️Keltounet@mastodon.social
Jul 6, 2026, 11:56 AMIn other news, someone wrote a complete Mandelbrot renderer… in BSD makefile syntax.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mandelbrot-set-renderer-written-in-pure-makefile.103171/
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BibbleCoBibbleCo@infosec.exchangeJul 6, 2026, 2:34 PM@Keltounet what a time to be alive
Jul 6, 2026, 4:02 PMNext up: A Rust compiler with a Makefile backend ?
- Ollivier Robert 🇺🇦😷🌈♾️Keltounet@mastodon.socialJul 6, 2026, 4:41 PM
@bsdphk don't give them ideas! 😅
webhatwebhat@infosec.exchangeJul 6, 2026, 7:00 PM@Keltounet @bsdphk it doesn't sound so hard to make an LLVM backend in Makefiles 😜
Hey Guselebertus@eigenmagic.netJul 7, 2026, 2:22 AM@webhat @Keltounet @bsdphk absolutely how all this type of shit starts :bender:
Jul 7, 2026, 8:50 PM@Keltounet @wiert ugh. Cruel and unusual punishment.
Space Hobospacehobo@teh.entar.netJul 8, 2026, 5:16 AM@Keltounet Another disappointing "BSD make has dumb .if and .else statements so we just write it like a shell script" approach.
Actually use the DAG in make to do the logic, you cowards.