<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Sooo, what you are telling me is that I should have been embarrassed to be a CS academic a lot earlier. That checks out.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> yep. And Virginia Eubanks wrote about the previous version of this, during the Dot Com Boom and just after.</p><p><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518130/digital-dead-end/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518130</span><span class="invisible">/digital-dead-end/</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@rcombs" class="u-url mention">@<span>rcombs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> is there any issue doing that?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@cliffle" class="u-url mention">@<span>cliffle</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://spookygirl.boo/@amy" class="u-url mention">@<span>amy</span></a></span> i use branch coverage as a confidence-gaining tool: &quot;do i think i&#39;ve written enough tests? it looks like i did, but can i get the machine to double-check?&quot;</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@stepleton" class="u-url mention">@<span>stepleton</span></a></span> pretty!</p>

<p>&quot;Everyone should learn to code&quot; worked *so well* for the past 15 years, don&#39;t really see anything going wrong here.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> Hotspot isn&#39;t really a stack machine. *Java bytecode* is written for a stack machine, as is Wasm machine code, which works out well because it&#39;s compact: you don&#39;t encode (almost) any temporary indices, like you would have in LLVM</p><p>the moment you load it, you transform it into a register representation in memory. not literally every implementation does it, but most do not actually execute it with a data stack</p>

<p>So. Creeping along with this. I am posting tihs from a bus.</p><p>Learned some more about &quot;textual WASM&quot;. Two things I learned. One. It is LISP but also it is Forth. You write it as structurally an S-expression but the commands you write in that S-expression are, as it happens, instructions to a stack machine. This surprised me, but apparently Hotspot was a stack machine, as was the C# CLR as it was based on Hotspot, as is wasm because it was based on… Hotspot. Apparently this works well for JIT.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Played XWVM in VR today with the HOTAS (I am that person). It is awesome! It looks great, plays well, and was easy to setup. Outside of the Nebulon being an original untextured model, the texture/model pack addon, new lighting, and other enhancements are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing!</p>