I was whining about people on hn and lobsters being mean to the projects I loved yesterday, and it sparked some good conversations.
I went over my entire website and eradicated the use of words like "simply" and "easy". Removed things with retro-computing connotations, tried to limit the metaphors with mentions of old or small scale technologies.
Also added a few notes on decisions that advised its design.
> What's the benefit of Uxn over C, when just about everything has a C compiler?
While terminal utilities can be made portable, cross-platform graphical development is different. For example, building a project in C, for both Linux and Plan 9, will require a near total rewrite, whereas porting the thin layer that is the uxn emulator will allow that same rom file to be used on both systems.
Hi, @neauoire I'm writing an essay where I analyze the various kind of data and software among them.
I argue that every single software out there is in fact a virtual machine that execute programs.
Take a jpeg viewer: it executes JPEG files to draw pixel on a raster screen.
That's something that derives from #Dijkstra definition of computers (see EWD898) and universal turing machines.
What if Uxn was in fact the building block of a new agevof computing?
Imagine composing little indipendent machines that communicate over a simple protocol...
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Also what was wrong with simplicity on lobsters, now?
