Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"

On 2025-03-31, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote:

In article <slrnvuik3u.miq.anthk@openbsd.home>,
anthk  <anthk@openbsd.home> wrote:

On 2025-03-29, mhx <mhx@iae.nl> wrote:

Writing a gopher, irc
and some small usenet client would be a breeze.

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That should be the least of our worries when the world ends?
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-marcel

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More than 'end', Dusk OS looks great for 2nd/3rd world machines
with very few requirements. You might find surprised that Lagrange
and protocols like Gopher and Gemini among https://telae.net
are used in some part of South America.
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More than 'the end of the world', think about 'non reliable
sources of power', shitty internet connections and so on.
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DuskOS with TCP/IP, gopher/irc and maybe some basic soundcard
support would be great for low end i386 machines.

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The third world is developing faster than the first world because
of the second world.
Because of the Belt and Road initiative and investments from China but
mostly of the incompetence of Musk and Trump, USA becomes the third
world, and the other worlds move one place up.
Don't expect i386 relevant in other places than the USA.
arm and riscv rule!
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Huawei is deploying 6G and once finished starlink can't compete,
because they need ground stations everywhere.
Robot factories can crank out one smart phone per second, so the now
poor countries can afford them. Read up on 'xiao mi'.
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Groetjes Albert

I daily speak with latam users. They love some Gopher and Gemini services
such as News Waffle.

You can always check comp.infosystems.gemini

On Forth, I think Retroforth could be suited for that if it had TLS support.