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<Mutabah>Hello, am I able to link to a project to be included on the "projects" page of the bootstrappable.org website?
<Mutabah> https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc - Someone on reddit suggested this
<Mutabah>(it's a second rust compiler, written in C++ to allow bootstrapping of the main rust compile)
<janneke>Mutabah: thanks!
<janneke>we'll make sure to let dannym know about it -- https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/
<oriansj>Mutabah: very nice
<xentrac>an offbrand FPGA with 1152 4-LUTs and 72 kilobits of SRAM for US$5: https://hackaday.com/2019/11/03/the-5-fpga/
<xentrac>well, a module containing it. presumably the FPGA itself is cheaper than that
<xentrac>plus 64 megabits of "PSRAM" (i.e., DRAM that fakes an SRAM interface)
<xentrac>right now the only way to program it is with a shitty FlexLM-locked IDE but I don't imagine that situation will last long
<xentrac>my estimate for Calculus Vaporis is that you could build it in just over 1000 NAND gates, or just over 600 if you're willing to make it bit-serial; presumably that means you could get it under 500 4-LUTs, although I haven't tried
<dddddd>hi booters
***ng0_ is now known as ng0
<oriansj>xentrac: looks like a bitch to program
<amz3>I abandonned my project to go to another planet with 1000000 GNU people :(
<amz3>seriously, fighting the web browser mania and dominance is very difficult.
<amz3>(for the record, I am, among other things, against browser, because they are not easy to hack on)
<oriansj>amz3: it is ok
<oriansj>The hardest thing in the world is sometimes ignore everyone else and listen to ourselves.
<oriansj>Do what you feel needs to be done and make the world a better more vibrant place doing so.
<oriansj>amz3: also have you heard of https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/nomad.git ?