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Comment · 5 months ago
That's pretty neat. I didn't realize how far out the GPS satellites were. Also, TIL that Hubble telescope was LEO. Wild.
Comment · 10 months ago
Almost, but not quite yet. Hoping it comes in the next dev cycle.
Comment · 1 year ago
No, but works fine in Rosetta emulation. And can use native libraries installed via for example the Intel Homebrew.

We do hope to get native aarch64 support in the near future. Let's see.

Comment · 1 year ago
Factor is not dead, but continues to make development progress. If you're curious you can find more information on the main page:

https://factorcode.org

The latest release of 0.100 was September 2024, and we are getting close to a new release which we hope to do end of the year or so.

https://github.com/factor/factor

The cross-platform UI that Factor has works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. On Linux, it unfortunately still uses a GTK2-GLext project for the OpenGL widget that we render into, but modern GTK3/4 has a Gtk.GlArea that we need to switch to using which will improve the compatibility on Wayland. However, it works fine with even the latest Ubuntu 25.10 release.

And of course, you could use other libraries easily, such as Raylib:

https://re.factorcode.org/2025/05/raylib.html

Comment · 1 year ago
That's pretty cool, do you have the algorithm described anywhere?
Comment · 1 year ago
I hope you see this comment:

Please revert the "fix" that makes it so your demo is not seen at all.

Comment · 1 year ago
I imagine package managers will start picking this up shortly since it just released publicly.
Comment · 1 year ago
$ git clone [email protected]:ghostty-org/ghostty.git

$ cd ghostty

$ zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast

$ ./zig-out/bin/ghostty

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
What, in particular, are you looking for?

Something like enum variants?

Comment · 2 years ago
Fixed, thanks for reporting!

It was correct on the main Factor website, but my blog was using the old links before we fixed the macos rename.

Comment · 3 years ago
I agree, I've written much better Factor code. This was mainly to get a matching test case working simply...
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm a bit biased as I've been working on and with Factor for 15 years and I am also the author of the linked article and "Re: Factor" blog.

I find Factor to have a compelling sweet spot of concise syntax, dynamic features, and (relatively) high performance. But in particular, I think we've done a good job with a few things:

1) Making the language very "clickable", so you can introspect and dig down into all function and type definitions.

2) Provide a lot of batteries-included in the standard library.

3) Make it super easy to accept contributions, there's a part of the distribution that is "extra" and has low barrier to entry and then we commit to keeping code working and promoting things to the main standard library when they are useful/documented/tested enough.

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