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Re:Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:24AM (#20389220)
This isn't reinventing Unix, this is a (cut down part of) Unix. (Unix the family, not the original Bell Labs OS, of course).

And "non-portable" because it's only portable to Unix? That's... Approximately everything. Linux family and Darwin naively, NT via WSL/cygwin/etc., BSDs obviously, Android sorta-natively or via Termux, Chrome OS via Termux, crouton, or crostani(sp?). What is Unix not portable to?

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Re:Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust by unwrap on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @03:52AM (#20389765)
It's probably the usual complaint of Rust not being able to run on an obscure 1965-era calculator.
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Re:Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust by fluffything on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:42AM (#20390479)
I can't run C on a 8-bit calculator either. At least not using GCC or Clang or any other mainstream compiler. Sure, I could use some toy compiler for that, but then 99% of the libraries I'd like to use won't work there anyways, due to a variety of issues.
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Re:Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:02PM (#20398601)
I was about to object, but actually it looks like you're right; tigcc appears to only target the TI-89 et al. which run on the 16-bit Motorola 68000 series. A quick search doesn't give me any C compiler for the TI-84 after all.

Your actual point, of course, is valid regardless:)

EDIT: Oops, actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Device_C_Compiler ... but then you're right about getting pretty obscure.

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