<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> getting flashbacks to <a href="https://github.com/eddyb/sobek/blob/main/src/ir/build.rs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/eddyb/sobek/blob/ma</span><span class="invisible">in/src/ir/build.rs</span></a> (and older shit that was even worse)</p><p>that one file mostly just generates a bunch of `struct`s and `impl`s (via `macro_rules!`) to allow `a + b * c` to be like `Add(a, Mul(b, c))`, except much messier to avoid needing a million `impl`s</p><p>idk if there&#39;s a clean use of it but e.g.:<br /><a href="https://github.com/eddyb/sobek/blob/7ed003a22fbe5414c136ca179fe518ef49009ae6/src/isa/i8051.rs#L407-L416" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/eddyb/sobek/blob/7e</span><span class="invisible">d003a22fbe5414c136ca179fe518ef49009ae6/src/isa/i8051.rs#L407-L416</span></a></p><p>`cx.a(...)` is &quot;allocating&quot; (well, interning but that&#39;s irrelevant) whatever mess (e.g. mix of operators/methods) is passed to it in `cx`</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> hard disks per linker error cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@weirdunits" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>weirdunits</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ikanreed" class="u-url mention">@<span>ikanreed</span></a></span> :)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> working in the embedded space, that&#39;s downright lean, compared to some of the solutions I&#39;ve seen</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> my dad&#39;s first external drive for our Mac Plus was 20MB 😖 </p><p>When we got the SE/30 with a 40MB HDD it was the best day ever</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> So you were using clang and c++?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> My first hard drive (i.e. owned by me) was 10MB. At the time it seemed like endless vistas of space...</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Plot twist: it was just one really long mangled symbol name that wasn&#39;t found.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Make sure when you transmit the JSON it you UUENCODE it first.</p>