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Why no MacOS support if you claim cross-platform? That's not honest.
Re:Switch to Gender Neutral Terms on Friday April 01, 2022 @10:13AM (#30878250)
April Fools I guess, considering the actual commit content:

- many -> persony

- helps -> theylps

- here -> theyre

- historical -> theirstorical

Re:There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image” on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:57PM (#28318245)
Yes. Exactly this.
Agreed. But why choose if it's easy to add an idiomatic pure-JavaScript/EcmaScript 2021 implementation to compare with as well?
Now find some sources to cite with that timeline, and create a wikipedia article from it!
Well, that is the point of software, to change quicker and cheaper.
... but racket basically exists to create parsers and languages. It happens to also be a general programming language. But so is JS nowadays with Node.
In that case, way I ask why you are not a Racket user? Sounds like it'll save you a ton of time and keep your implementations high level.
When should one use Ohm over Racket?
Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux on Friday March 05, 2021 @09:49AM (#26357383)
How is Proton a technology/library/sorftware? I got the impression it's just a preconfigured Wine, but not an actual implementation. Sorry if I'm misinformed.

And _if_ that's true, I'm sad about the credits not going to the Wine team.

Have you seen & tried Racket?