(pest) asciilifeform: signpost: naturally can bake per-platform ui in cpp, and link in a 'libpest'. but would rather not have any overflowlang in the build at all

(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: not that it matters one lick in the general case -- ~all~ overflowlang shitware is effectively nsaware, i.e. has inexhaustible supply of exploitable bugolade.

(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: trinque: i historically prefer 'yasm', with 'nasm' as edible alternative. they're both pretty fat balls o' overflowlang ftr. imho ideal endgame there would be as described in scriptlang thrd. but we aint there yet.

(trilema) asciilifeform: the only folx for whom 'mystery' and 'requires' 50,000 ln of overflowlang -- are koch et al

(trilema) asciilifeform: overflowlang ftw.

(trilema) asciilifeform: there is absolutely no justification for the continued use of c, aka overflowlang, aka heapabuselang, since... oh, 1985.

(trilema) asciilifeform: ( moar lulz , for the expert entomologist, here, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/08/5 , where d00d expounds re 'weak and strong random', studiously pretends that overflowlang bignum matters, etc. )

(trilema) asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-14#1737525 << this is therightthing. but note that not only is http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-14#1737533 not a problem, but the behaviour is fundamental to ffa. in ada a structure is considered nondynamic if its size doesn't change at run time. not if 'magic number' size, like in overflowlang.

(trilema) asciilifeform: 'ropes' text not only replaces O(1) ops with O(log n), but introduces pointerism and the inevitable overflow ( when implemented, as all unixen are, in overflowlang ) and thus possibility of ill-formed structures , whereas ALL conventional strings are well-formed at birth

(trilema) asciilifeform: run moar overflowlang!1!!

(trilema) asciilifeform: on top of all this... betcha the canonical ref implementation is in overflowlang.

(trilema) asciilifeform: and not only 'fewer lines' but 0 of overflowlang

(trilema) asciilifeform: y'mean overflowlang

(trilema) asciilifeform doesn't particularly need a db in overflowlang or gcpauselang for anything. but perhaps somebody else does...