Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

[Joshua Branson]

Jan Wielkiewicz <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> writes:

> Dnia 2020-08-16, o godz. 09:44:38
> Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> napisał(a):

>> I'll email the leader the libre-risc-v and let him know about the
>> libre-soc.org website.  Those guys should work together!
> They're the same actually :)
> They changed the name, because they abandoned(?) the idea of using
> Risc-V as the Risc-V foundation was hostine towards libre development.
> https://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2019-October/003035.html
> OpenPOWER foundation is just more cooperative.

What!  No way!  How about that shiny Alaskan asparagus tips!  I did not
know!

>
>>
>> I'm fairly certain that the Hurd developers would agree with you in
>> this.  I believe that they would love it for the Hurd to work on
>> numerous architectures.  I believe that the Hurd's glibc's port to
>> OpenPower, will need to be completed.  For the more technical porting
>> details, you'll have to ask the other Hurd devs.  I believe that this
>> is quite an involved task.  :)
>>
> I just wanted to make sure people are aware of this project, I'm not
> competent enough to work on this task, but maybe in the future.

I believe in you.  "You are stronger than you feel, braver than you
know, wiser beyond your years.  Where-ever you go, there's something
that you must always remember, I'll always be with you."

- Winnie the Pooh
>> Again, I'm speculating here, but Samuel might be ok with this.  I
>> don't know how well rust support is in the Hurd.  You might have to
>> port rust to the Hurd, which is non-trivial.   I think we are still
>> working on getting Go to work on the Hurd.  :)
> I don't like Rust (yet) nor Go, but I think the project could gain from
> using these new languages, just because they're *brand new* and popular
> right now - people are looking for projects to contribute to gain
> experience and have fun.

Have you heard about zig yet?  It's a language that is faster than C!
Now it depends on LLVM, and we would rather have it depend on GCC.  But
maybe you could write a zig alternative that is powered by GCC?

https://ziglang.org/

>
>> --
>> Joshua Branson
>> Sent from Emacs and Gnus
>>
>
> I have to try sending my mails from Emacs one day

https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/22b0af22-f1b3-469c-b09b-65e82b3f9643

That'll give you some tips...Most serious GNU maintainers tend to use
Gnus.  I use Gnus, because I want to be just like Samuel :)  And Ludo
:).  And John Wigley!  John Wigley has his Gnus set up, so that, he can
say, "I do not want to hear from this email thread, unless my name is
specifically mentioned again."

I personally am still figuring out how to get searching in Gnus
working.  :)

>
> Jan Wielkiewicz

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Joshua Branson
Sent from Emacs and Gnus