Hacker News: valorzard

New comment by valorzard in "Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming"

valorzard — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:21:02 +0000

This might be a dumb question, but using this + clang bounds-safety, whats the difference between this and something like Zig or Odin.

What do you think C would need in order to reach the user experience of those languages?

New comment by valorzard in "How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter"

valorzard — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:16:49 +0000

Do you think this exercise has taught you anything that could make fil c itself better?

New comment by valorzard in "Modern Common Lisp with FSet"

valorzard — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:29:13 +0000

I remember watching you give a version of this talk at the Bay Area Lisp meetup!

New comment by valorzard in "Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor"

valorzard — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:36:41 +0000

Japanese PC-98 games have an aesthetic that’s so unique. There’s this one Twitter account that posts images from visual novels from that era and they all look so pretty: https://x.com/PC98_bot Also on bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/pc98bot.gang-fight.com

New comment by valorzard in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"

valorzard — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:47:25 +0000

Time lords can’t do anything, they’re all dead (twice now, thanks RTD)

Maybe the doctor could take you back there with a TARDIS, but time paradoxes and fixed points in time and all that

New comment by valorzard in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

valorzard — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:14:04 +0000

From what I can tell taking to people in the discord and stuff, people seem to do it all the time and not run into any issues. Still, it would be neat if they got off winforms and switched to something like Avalonia

New comment by valorzard in "Show HN: Mystral Native – Run JavaScript games natively with WebGPU (no browser)"

valorzard — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:36:18 +0000

This is so interesting!! I had a very similar idea! I would love to see if you could port games made with phaser or three js to this engine (though I think anything that involves the DOM is a no go sadly)

New comment by valorzard in "Guix for Development"

valorzard — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:12:49 +0000

Yeah Guix has a Dockerfile export

New comment by valorzard in "Linux is good now"

valorzard — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:38:19 +0000

Your house sounds like a great place to hold a fighting game local tournament (or something like the old Smash Summit series for Smash Bros Melee and Ultimate before Beyond The Summit shut down)

New comment by valorzard in "WebTransport is almost here to allow UDP-like exchange in the browser"

valorzard — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:22:00 +0000

Did you try using the unreliable datagram extension?

New comment by valorzard in "Writing your own BEAM"

valorzard — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:07:07 +0000

You want https://github.com/burrito-elixir/burrito

New comment by valorzard in "Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc."

valorzard — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:39:24 +0000

I’d like to take this moment to say that the recent She Ra revival series on Netflix by ND Stevenson (the creator of Nimona) is pretty good, go watch it.

New comment by valorzard in "Practical Scheme"

valorzard — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:37:12 +0000

I might try this next, will check out and try to build it tomorrow Shame that there’s no way to run ./configure on native windows though, I’ll have to use MSYS2

New comment by valorzard in "Practical Scheme"

valorzard — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:33:56 +0000

I’ve been able to build chicken on Linux kinda, but no dice on windows Edit: oh woops the maintainers responded to me on the mailing list! I should probably respond back https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2025-10/...

New comment by valorzard in "Practical Scheme"

valorzard — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:33:29 +0000

I’ve tried chez exe and I can’t tell if it’s bit rotted or if it just doesn’t work on windows anymore

New comment by valorzard in "Practical Scheme"

valorzard — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:49:55 +0000

What scheme do I used if I want to compile to a standalone executable on both Linux and windows? (That’s not Racket)

New comment by valorzard in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

valorzard — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 03:30:24 +0000

The author got hired by Modular, the AI startup founded by the creators of LLVM and Swift, and is now working on the new language Mojo. He’s been bringing a bunch of ideas from Vale to Mojo

New comment by valorzard in "If Odin Had Macros"

valorzard — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:33:28 +0000

Something I don’t get.

Odin doesn’t support closures (a la C++ or Rust)

The thing is, I don’t understand why.

Odin’s FAQ says it’s because closures require automatic memory management. [0] But if that’s the case, why do languages like C++ and Ada [1] support closures?

[0] https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/#does-odin-have-closures

[1] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/advanced-ada/parts/resourc...

New comment by valorzard in "Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua"

valorzard — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:21:42 +0000

Something that’s REALLY interesting is that Roblox is working on a Node.js style desktop runtime for Luau:

https://github.com/luau-lang/lute

New comment by valorzard in "Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine"

valorzard — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:57:02 +0000

Big fan of the cherno!