| Thanks, a lot of this is new and useful to me. > Recently I've been wondering if there's enough interest for a Discord server or something. (In the spirit of STEPS, it'd be ideal to make a new collaborative thing that's really different than static text/audio/video on the web, but gotta start somewhere. :) ) Unfortunately, I have had other, higher-priority projects at the moment, so I have taken no initiative to try to build a community. I don't really like Discord because they keep asking for phone verification and early on, they were pretty aggressively shut down alternate client attempts. What about Mattermost? I could try to set one up though initially, we wouldn't have email notifications or a CDN. Might not be so good if the initial group is small. Slack? Don't know how they compare to Discord but at least they don't ask for phone verification. A subreddit? A mailing list? Some kind of fediverse thing? If there's some possibility of migrating to our own platform, I guess it doesn't matter as much where we start. I could try to set something up in the coming week. But interest in this HN thread will still have died by that time. > I did get Nile + Gezira to work (albeit in a very crude way by printing numbers to the console rather than hooking it up to a frame buffer). That's how I met Dan. I don't want to betray any confidences with him, but there is ongoing work with Nile. Nice! I'm not anywhere near that. I'm still looking for a description of what it _is_ and at a very high level, how does it work internally? Something like "it's mathematical notation to describe the pixel positions/intensities implicitly via constraint equations; it uses a <something> solver for ...". What's in quote could be way off and is from memory of what I remember seeing. > I've gotten both up and running. I seem to remember the Boehm GC was pivotal in getting Maru to bootstrap and then run Nile. I also vaguely remember something about getting the right Boehm GC version so that some of > Pymetaterp is cool! I agree: Warth's work on OMeta was impressive. In some ways, Ohm feels inferior to me, though they're both good tools with lots of potential. Thanks! I share similar thoughts about Ohm. Having a visual editor is very nice, though I tend to use breakpoints for parser debugging [1]. Edit to add that id-objmodel [2] is another STEPS project I found to be simple and useful as an idea. [1] See, for example, "Debugging" in https://blog.asrpo.com/adding_new_statement
[2] https://www.piumarta.com/software/id-objmodel/ |