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Honestly, I can’t support Y Combinator (by contributing to this site) after the CEO does something like this without repercussions—song lyrics or not.

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Thanks for the correction! I had only used Lua, and thought Fennel had no runtime, so I assumed this was not possible.

Short answer: I don’t know. That sounds like a good idea, but how would that access local variables in the caller (to inspect state)?

I remember the Lua C API exposes a lot of information, but I didn’t think it was accessible from scripts. Of course, it was a long time ago and I could have easily missed something at the time. Happy to be corrected!

Edit: you might also run into difficulties trying to redefine non-global functions to add the call to “repl”.

Last I checked, Lua was “bring your own debugger”. Assuming that hasn’t changed, a REPL is nice, but you can’t pause and inspect anything by default.

Good list! I, too, have many complaints about Common Lisp.

But for a language whose standard hasn’t been updated in roughly 30 years, it holds up impressively well!

Thanks! Most of those seem like a fair trade-off for portability… for an app.

I’m not sure it’s a great idea for an OS as in the OP, but I do like that they claim accurate incremental rebuilds, to ensure everything get updated. Certainly an interesting experiment!

Edit: just to clarify, I meant "app" as in "something that isn't part of the OS/distribution".

What are the quirks of static linking you need to work around (in general, not for glibc)?

Does anyone know how big the base installation is? I couldn't find an answer anywhere, and the link to the QEMU image appears to be broken, currently.

I'm curious how it compares to, say, Alpine with a similar set of packages.

Maybe not all pages are reachable from the root.

If you end up starting a blog, please share it on HN so I can find it :)

Do you have any programming language or UI toolkit preference? That will likely scope your options.

If it's just for you, you could use something simple like Tk (e.g. Python + Tkinter).

It sounds like how the pedals react and one-pedal driving are the reasons they suspect? I was expecting touchscreen-only controls to be mentioned, but for all I know new ICE vehicles are like that too.

What are some current examples of lean software, esp. related to developing and deploying software?

i3? SourceHut? QuickJS? Edit: BusyBox!

I know it’s an open-ended question, but I’m curious to see thoughts from others.

For context, possibly in reaction to porting an app via Electron, I’ve been trying to repent by finding a minimal development environment for hobby projects. I’m not sure it qualifies as “lean”, but Emacs and SBCL strike a nice balance for me right now.