There is something remarkable about turning speech into code (don't need to hunch over a keyboard nearly as much these days, can just talk into a mic) and it's good for first drafts / exploring ideas. But it's obvious to anyone that's paying attention we're hitting the top of the S-curve. It's no wonder the IPOs are around the corner. I mean even Dario admitted he doesn't know how they're gonna substantially increase the context window size. That says a lot.

    Xxd = function(name, input)
        if not name:find'^[_%a][_%w]*$' then error('bad name: '..tostring(name)) end
        local ans = {
            'const unsigned int '..name..'_len = '..(#input)..';',
            'const unsigned char '..name..'[] = {',
        }
        local t = {}
        for i=1,#input do
            table.insert(t, ('0x%02x,'):format(input:byte(i)))
            if #t == 16 then -- 16 columns per row. arbitrary, change this if you want
                table.insert(ans, table.concat(t))
                t = {}
            end
        end
        if #t ~= 0 then
            table.insert(ans, table.concat(t))
        end
        table.insert(ans, '};\n')
        return table.concat(ans, '\n')
    end

Honestly that's a terrible joke. Seriously it's MIT. Here I will put the full license in this comment to illustrate how serious I am:

Copyright 2026 rweichler

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

My main complaint with GNUstep is the licensing. The runtime itself is MIT which is great, but its implementation of Foundation/AppKit is LGPL. ObjFW, including its runtime, is LGPL. At least with GNUstep one day I can create my own version of Foundation based on Cocotron or swift-corelibs-foundation or something, and not need to muck with rpaths + ship a bunch of .dll/.dylib/.so files with my app in order to comply with the license.

If I didn't know any better I would learn the Wayland API. Just like how: if I didn't know any better I would learn Swift (instead of Objective-C). But thankfully I do know better and I know to stay far away from Swift [1]. Is it the same deal with Xorg/Wayland? It seems like noobs prefer Wayland but the experts prefer Xorg.

1. https://youtu.be/ovYbgbrQ-v8?t=1456

One of these days I'll port OpenResty to use PUC Lua and this FFI.

Totally valid choice to make, but in my opinion OP is missing out. OpenResty is state of the art and has a ton of great libraries embedded in it. It's "batteries included" so to speak, and the batteries are well designed. Yichun Zhang is one of the GOATs, along with Mike Pall. And Roberto, obviously.

Ha, that's a nice way of wording that. I'd take it a step or two further. :)