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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-05 08:55:02)
@icedquinn tell me what youthink about haxe
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Q.U.I.N.N.@icedquinn@blob.cat (2026-08-05 09:19:06)
@sun i liked it back in the day. i haven't used the current tooling yet. and haxe 5 is around the corner.

i ultimately didn't use it because it bothered me that it wasn't self-hosted, but :comfyshrug: that hasn't mattered, and its endured for the past 20 years regardless.

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Q.U.I.N.N.@icedquinn@blob.cat (2026-08-05 09:24:54)
@sun i think to some extent i'd like to just go back to ocaml if there was a way to manually guide the compiler to make decent C code at the end of the day.

have been reading too many PL papers the past two weeks. there's a lot of stuff around about how we really shouldn't be hand optimizing code anymore. optimizers are very well known and very good at their jobs. we just lack building the tooling around letting us tell them what we want them to do.

you have shit like mlton and stalin showing you absolutely could draw a box around the audio kernel and say "optimize the everloving fuck out of just this hot part" but we don't