~ Code Crafters Cafe ~

We intend to save human intelligence, to preserve the ability to write code with our own hands and our own brains. Join us now on #codecrafters channel at libera.chat or discord: https://discord.gg/W7CMehj6dd

~ A cozy place in the jungle of the techno world for all programmers who like to create high-quality and effective code from scratch with their own hands. Hobbyists, professionals, beginners, and just curious about how things really work. Handmade, free and open-source software written with a love for engineering and deep knowledge is code crafting. ~

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      15 days ago

      It’s baffling how many open source projects choose proprietary big tech systems for their projects, especially an inefficient comms tool like discord.

      • Shareni@programming.dev
        23·
        14 days ago

        Inb4 “But it’s easier for people to join, everyone has discord”

        If someone can’t take 2 minutes to register to a forum/Lemmy/whatever they’re not going to give any good contributions to your community… Those are the same lazy bastards that create a post instead of literally googling their title and getting the answers immediately.

    • zirias (on snac)@snac.bsd.cafe
      4·
      15 days ago

      I always had the idea in mind to one day code something in #C for the #C64. There’s #cc65 offering a decent compiler. I always ended up with using #assembler again. That’s because on that platform, it is the only way to have “full control”: The OS only offers a machine code ABI (jump to routines, pass stuff in registers) and misses lots of things, so you need to program the hardware directly. Of course, I still use an assembler instead of hacking the bytes of the machine code directly.

      Any Unix and similar OS comes with a C compiler, and even other systems offer a C API, so for a “modern” environment, that’s the natural language to use for that “full control”. And remember, C is your “portable assembler”. 😏

      In a nutshell, if you take “from scratch” literally, it would mean to somehow hack bytes into the machine’s memory. That doesn’t make much sense. I understand it as “use a simple programming language and avoid these huge frameworks and similar doing deep magical stuff for you”.

      CC: @modev@snac.bsd.cafe