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A compiler for the esoteric language Piet, targeting multiple backends.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2019-11-25 · latest 2024-10-23

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  1. …too -- it's written in safe Rust! Too cool! [1] https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html [2] https://github.com/boothby/repiet [3] https://github.com/pwang00/pietcc/
  2. …really lazy and used a trampoline[3] [1] http://www.toothycat.net/wiki/wiki.pl?MoonShadow/Piet [2] https://github.com/boothby/repiet/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trampoline_(computing)
  3. …interpreter-agnostic, but I've only dug into the details of three or four other interpreters. [1] https://github.com/boothby/repiet/
  4. …been going down weird rabbit holes and learning aspects of computing that I missed in school. [1] https://github.com/boothby/repiet
    comment by boothby · 2021-05-23 · in Why I prefer making useless stuff
  5. Bears mentioning that Piet is "faster than C" if you use the right compiler. https://github.com/boothby/repiet/blob/master/README.md#but-... Among the esoteric languages I've learned, Piet is by far, hands down, my favorite. But it's…
  6. Look what you made me do! https://github.com/boothby/repiet/#but-is-it-faster-than-c
    comment by boothby · 2019-11-25 · in Beating C with one line of Brainfuck