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New comment by pansa2 in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

pansa2 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:24:16 +0000

Lua is the same IIRC: open source but not open development.

It’s MIT licensed, and the maintainers are always grateful for bug reports, but all the code in the project was written by just 3 people.

New comment by pansa2 in "The Green Side of the Lua"

pansa2 — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:44:00 +0000

> The C interface to ruby is just superb.

How does it handle garbage collection? AFAIK GC is the main reason behind Lua's stack-based API: it's designed so that C code never needs to hold a pointer to a Lua object, which means an object will never be garbage-collected while C code is still trying to use it.

OTOH Python does allow C code to hold such pointers - so it requires that code to perform error-prone manual reference-counting.

How does Ruby solve this problem?

New comment by pansa2 in "The Green Side of the Lua"

pansa2 — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:00:34 +0000

I guess it alludes to “The Dark Side of the Moon”

New comment by pansa2 in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

pansa2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:57:17 +0000

Mojo?

New comment by pansa2 in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

pansa2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:36:59 +0000

`npm isntall`

New comment by pansa2 in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

pansa2 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:35:00 +0000

> they intended to make it compatible with existing Python code

That was the original claim, but it was quietly removed from the website. (Did they fall for the common “Python is a simple language” misconception?).

Now they promise I can “write like Python”, but don’t even support fundamentals like classes (which are part of stage 3 of the roadmap, but they’re still working on stage 1).

Maybe Mojo will achieve all its goals, but so far has been over-promising and under-delivering - it’s starting to remind me of the V language.

New comment by pansa2 in "NZ Government to Disestablish the BSA"

pansa2 — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:33:02 +0000

> New Zealanders are forced to pay a sky high TV licence

There’s no TV license in New Zealand

New comment by pansa2 in "Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16"

pansa2 — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:38:06 +0000

The PEP for this change is here [0] and discussion of it is here [1]. Both are very long and seem to represent a huge amount of complexity, apparently to make installing Python easier for novices?

But what about those of us who listened to Rich Hickey and prefer "simple" over "easy"? With the executable installer no longer available, how do I get a copy of python.exe, python316.dll etc onto my machine so that `C:\Python316\python.exe