It's wild how little computing ends up talking about compute like this.
This feels like it abuts the live vs dead software distinction, that most software has fixed code, fixed runtimes, is dead. Rarely is the runtime extending itself, adjustable.
The code itself that Simon walks through is some excellently concise metaprogramming.
And here we have the language being used to pull in specific versions for the language and go.
I wish the whole Electron vs Tauri vs whatever debate had some options like this, where there are a repository of runtimes to call upon on demand.
This feels like it abuts the live vs dead software distinction, that most software has fixed code, fixed runtimes, is dead. Rarely is the runtime extending itself, adjustable.
The code itself that Simon walks through is some excellently concise metaprogramming.
And here we have the language being used to pull in specific versions for the language and go.
I wish the whole Electron vs Tauri vs whatever debate had some options like this, where there are a repository of runtimes to call upon on demand.