Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@jamey i’d be very interested in <https://bun.sh/>, which is built on JavaScriptCore instead of V8, because i do think JSC is generally the better runtime (well, and i don’t like Google)

but unfortunately i don’t care at all about the kind of development they are targeting and my needs are much better served by Deno

@jamey no, i mean webkit (well, JavaScriptCore)

webkit has implemented PTC for ages: https://webkit.org/blog/6240/ecmascript-6-proper-tail-calls-in-webkit/

chrome implemented in V8, but refused to ship, and eventually removed: https://v8.dev/blog/modern-javascript#proper-tail-calls

firefox bug is very sleepy: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723959

more of a summary here: https://www.mgmarlow.com/words/2021-03-27-proper-tail-calls-js/

@wallhackio pivot to ruby, then you can have an ecosystem which is neither large nor good

; { const sum = (() => {"use strict"; return (x,i=0) => x === 0 ? i+x : sum(x-1,i+x)})(); sum(5000000) }

Works On My Machine

webkit is still the only one which lets you do proper functional programming, huh

heaven forbid one of those implementations be open source because then it will within a year be held together by the struggling efforts of an unrecognized generally good queer weirdo despite the fact that the original code was written by a friend of a literal nazi, and then it becomes impossible to tell whether supporting it is good or not

“i’m so genius i made a thing which thousands of people use” no, you’re trash and your thing is trash, you’re just popular

it’s very depressing working in a field full of shit standards which only exist because some startup bro spent like a weekend throwing it together and it took off on twitter and now there are five interoperable implementations which no competitor will ever be able to usurp

every day i curse the fact that tech does not have any mechanism for resource sharing beyond being active on some socially regressive forum or visibly working for an exploitative company or being popular on twitter

the language discourse has somewhat faded (not entirely tho, as evidenced by the whole “typescript is better than javascript” crowd) but the “real programmers don’t write scripts they develop Frameworks and build Applications” sentiment absolutely hasn’t

remember when tech culture went on a war against these, thus rendering itself incapable of building a website without importing 15,000 packages

trying to see what Lady is working on (not published to git) by seeing what Lady is working on (published to git)

fixed it https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commit/0.5.2

oh i bet this is why it is slow https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commit/88823523127972944771746f48bc2838e0317d31

can’t believe i’m spending my saturday optimizing a make·file

hope to have the source code up sometime this weekend

but before doing that i at least need to write a README for it

i now have the ability to create dragon age–style codices from a directory of text files

it looks terrible because there is no styling yet, but i can do it