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by Herdinger 4591 days ago
Something tells me I shouldn't have done this out of an impulse. I basically hacked it away in 1 hour with one proofread. I felt on fire and wanted to push it out that probably wasn't such a good idea.

Of course you can represent utf8 in null terminated strings but you have to escape escape the null character, or if used as a terminator implicitly assume it's there. The basic jist of that was that I wanted to say, dont use byte encodings internally if you got large registers available and keep attention to null termination and it's pitfalls.

But justification beside I'm going to give it more time and reference check against the standard, refrase my intentions so that they are clear and probably shine more light on the positive aspects of the language and put it intro relation with other languages.

Hacker News isn't a place for pre alpha done in very little time drafts.

1 comments

I think it definitely has potential. Throw it up on Github, and let people submit pull requests. Don't feel like you need to spend more of your time fixing the examples.