Gregory's Serverthe french government's free and open source software advisory council weighs in on the value of direct EU funding of free software producers via @NGIZero and related NGI programs: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@codegouvfr/113287610402273459
|
13 posts total
i have been developing on (gnu/)linux for, um, a long time now, and i just now learned about /usr/bin/env -S https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-invocation.html#g_t_002dS_002f_002d_002dsplit_002dstring-usage-in-scripts
Show previous comments
   @wingo Unfortunately, the line length is limited. Here is my preambled-exec, for entire Guile snippets. It is an env on steroids. https://codeberg.org/lechner/preambled-exec thanks to a grant from nlnet / ngi zero core, i get to carve out some work time later this year to hack on the whippet garbage collector! more on this when i find how to schedule it, but i am really looking forward to the hack. https://nlnet.nl/project/Whippet/ should you happen to be in the vicinity of the lovely lacustral lausanne, i have a talk this thursday about compiling to wasm/gc: https://memento.epfl.ch/event/a-new-hope-compiling-managed-languages-to-webassem/ new blog post, in which i redesign my web site for the first time in 20 years https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/12/05/colophonwards  @wingo looks great! The old theme always reminded me of my early encounters with your blog probably around 2007  a wee update on @spritelyinst's compiler from scheme to webassembly (https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-hoot) -- we are perhaps 3 weeks away from feature-complete as regards the r7rs-small scheme report, and with a number of extensions (notably delimited continuations that compose with dynamic-wind and parameters). today while working on an inline asm facility for use in the stdlib, i realized that since we have a wasm toolchain in scheme already, we can just parse little wasm modules. neat :) all software has a time at which you start to question your life choices. with gnu make, it's always today  @wingo 'By the time I realized semantic tabs were a bad idea, I had 5 users and didn't want to break compatibility.' this is the kind of performance graphic that i like https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11bv9aC0l2lIesguiwtp0CDpKaiE6p5pMSZD3RvuUL9w/view#slide=id.g212b1c0df88_0_8 new bloggies: parallel futures in mobile application development https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/06/15/parallel-futures-in-mobile-application-development imagine designing a new scripting language in 2023 -- like, literally, a language designed to script other systems. then imagine claiming "no first class functions" as a feature 🤔 https://rhai.rs/book/about/non-design.html new bloggies: approaching cps soup ~~ https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/05/20/approaching-cps-soup what a delightful domain name ❤️❤️ https://continuation.passing.style/static/talks/gensym_icse23.pdf |
Up until now, free software has been treated as a massive source of free labor big industry, and use that code to rake in tremendous profits, especially when selling to governments for multi-million dollar contracts. Now governments are finally starting to realize that maybe they should also be setting aside tax funding to ensure the health and longevity of these software components that are so essential to the technical infrastructure upon which society is built. Maybe now the software engineers that make these technologies possible will finally start receiving proper compensation for their labor.
Via: @wingo @NGIZero
#tech #software #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #government
Up until now, free software has been treated as a massive source of free labor big industry, and use that code to rake in tremendous profits, especially when selling to governments for multi-million dollar contracts. Now governments are finally starting to realize that maybe they should also be setting aside tax funding...