Ramin Honary on Nostr: npub1gnx8s…6d5kh npub1p5w0m…r2mtz npub1h4deh…4vng6 there is something called ...
npub1gnx8s29wgech9620ja7cmy55lcfp46jnyd8f4t979yrhx6mdycjsg6d5kh (npub1gnx…d5kh) npub1p5w0madc6sjgumk2gpv34ju7renvfgr3xjthy64qc5rrldv8x2uq9r2mtz (npub1p5w…2mtz) npub1h4dehx9me76zwu70f209t5elm6gq7jrc50tnq362t682cq5xa4pq64vng6 (npub1h4d…vng6) there is something called “permacomputing“, like peramculture applied to computers. The idea is to make computer chips last as long as possible without replacing them, and to run software that is simple enough that any one individual could understand how it all works.
There is also Collapse OS which is an operating system written in the Forth programming langauge and runs on tiny 8-bit and 16-bit computers. It is called “collapse” because they assume that society as we know it is going to collapse soon, and so the massive, multi-billion dollar supply chains that are necessary to manufacture modern computers will disappear. So humanity will be stuck using only the set of all computer chips that have ever been manufactured prior to the collapse, and we will need to know how to make these chips last for hundreds of years.
I don’t really participate, but I am sympathetic to these communities. My own preferred programming language of choice is Scheme which is a tiny but useful computer language modeled on Lambda Calculus that is specified in only 80 pages of human-readable text. One of Scheme’s selling points is the ability for anyone to understand the whole spec and implement their own compiler with relatively little effort.
There is also Collapse OS which is an operating system written in the Forth programming langauge and runs on tiny 8-bit and 16-bit computers. It is called “collapse” because they assume that society as we know it is going to collapse soon, and so the massive, multi-billion dollar supply chains that are necessary to manufacture modern computers will disappear. So humanity will be stuck using only the set of all computer chips that have ever been manufactured prior to the collapse, and we will need to know how to make these chips last for hundreds of years.
I don’t really participate, but I am sympathetic to these communities. My own preferred programming language of choice is Scheme which is a tiny but useful computer language modeled on Lambda Calculus that is specified in only 80 pages of human-readable text. One of Scheme’s selling points is the ability for anyone to understand the whole spec and implement their own compiler with relatively little effort.