Matthias Tellen

Proposal: Don't use a toy language

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My understanding from reading the other issues is: The idea of the book is that different concepts are explored and demonstrated with a simple toy language. I see where this...

The heights of some lower case characters are inconsistent. This happens for the otf version, but not the ttf version. See https://github.com/madmalik/mononoki/issues/79#issuecomment-1243626971

I would like to automate the release workflow. - display configured version number and release date for verification - generate font files (ttf, otf and woff) from ufo export (fontforge?)...

Everything is a float and NaN packing

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A lot of scripting languages choose IEEE 754 doubles as the only numeric type and then encode all other possible values in the range of redundant NaN values. There is...

Stack vs. register based VMs

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These are the two prevalent implementation techniques for virtual machines. I'd like to collect some resources about the trade offs. On a high level: - Stack machines are simpler to...

On uniqueness and mutability

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Rusts central idea is to disallow mutability and aliasing at the same time (a little bit simplified). I'd like to discuss if it'd be useful to infuse a similar concept...

An idea for building and delivering $lang programs

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I assume for this writeup that we've a viable strategy to compile $lang to Rust and that it yields a sizeable performance boost. Both assumptions have to be evaluated, but...