If your trip to desert is worth polluting whole low orbit and high atmosphere is debatable. Same goes for hypothetical business there. Maybe building towers would be a better idea in long term.
I always love to see Rebol and Red mentioned anywhere, as I spent more than half of my life with these languages, working with them and working on them.
Recently I started working on [Recoil](https://recoil.rblk.eu/) which is inspired by Rebol/Red but targets static memory-safe compiled niche to complement dynamic interpreted nature of Rebol. It’s still in very early phase but it already has some very nice features (at least I consider them very nice) like fully compiler owned `parse`, finite state machine and (lazy) finite state transducer datatypes.
Oh, and built-in Rebol-like scripting language that can run on (not only) ESP32 called F00.
It’s still work in progress but I like it. Maybe someone else can find it interesting too.
No, even Rebol2 can build 64 bit but the whole compiler needs to be rewritten to produce 64 bit binaries. It’s not limitation but deliberate choice made when 32 bit was still major target. It may seem silly in the hindsight. But it made sense then.
No. I'm really not fan of Python but you're not going to parse JSON at assembler level. You need to choose right level of indirection for each task. And LLMs are good at more than Python and Rust. I'm using LLMs to write programs in my own language that is compiled by a very fringe language and it happily does everything from scripting on ESP32 to audio plugins and 3D gfx on desktop.
How much creativity do you need to fix bugs in corporate code? Almost zero. It’s maintenance, not creative work. Nothing against it, it’s needed, but let’s be real, would anybody be really sad if this work is overtaken by LLMs? I certainly won’t be, let them do it.
> "For the last 15 months or so my hobby has been shouting at Claude"
How can you shout at Claude when it’s
1) foobaring, bamblabooing and fghrtawing all the time without telling you what’s going on
2) when it finally interacts, it’s asking for a permission you told it 30 seconds ago "yes and do not ever ask me again until heat death of the Universe"
3) and after all of that, it just spits out: "you’re out of tokens, give up your liver or wait until next Trump’s war"
Not my experience. I tried to install on an old Asus Eee and everything worked on first try.
There's a web browser (Web Positive) that works good enough given the available resources on this machine.
The system itself runs very nicely on this hardware. I tried to install Linux there first but I wasn't able to find any 32 but distro with GUI that would fit on 4GB eMMC.
Now I have a neat small machine that supports what I need from it and I'm thinking of putting it on some more powerful HW.
I’m working on Recoil, memory safe, compiled static language (yeah, I know, everybody’s doing it) with Rebol syntax and built-in candies like parsing, finite state machine and rich syntax (that’s given, because of Rebol).
It’s nice to see how well-thought language design can pay off years later, with lower token usage. From entropy POV, Rebol syntax is certainly close to optimal state.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/rebolek; my proof: https://keybase.io/rebolek/sigs/tzvy9Vl1p2quWrqVcBgdyhLbod3jkiC6Td0iTS2QaFM ]