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- Author: on@☦️ (@onatt0)
- Posted: 2025-04-30 18:53:48
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1/ @onatt0
@NOTimothyLottes
holy truthnuke - and people think C is the optimal state of possible runtimes when it’s a very limited runtime to have state mixed call/data-stacks
not only you have to keep the whole stack around with replicated state, it limits to serialized execution instead of parallel
2/ @NOTimothyLottes
@onatt0
I laugh when people say C is like assembly, they are missing what we actually did in assembly back then, which was all registers and globals and gotos, no stacks. It’s radically different than good assembly.
3/ @onatt0
@NOTimothyLottes
when C became the execution model, it restricted all future hardware, HW gets built with how the C compiler will compile to it instead of what’s ultimately a good design and a malleable macro-lang to map to HW
ofc a lot of people want portability so we went the boring route