🤔 486es are 32 bit.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

🤔 486es are 32 bit. bismuth is 32 bit

bismuth is a platform for programming language creation

if i implement qbasic on bismuth i could run my DOS qbasic programs in the bismuth VM or transpile them to C 🤔

[slaeshjag@bitbang.social]

@eniko don't let bitness guide your decisions. I have a 32-bit VM that I've ported GCC to, which I also have a 16-bit runtime for :v

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@slaeshjag well its just that youre not gonna have a great time running code that assumes 32 bit integers on a 16 or 8 bit platform, performance wise :P

[outie@slime.global]

@eniko thank you for that second line, I got very confused about the architecture of funky colourful crystals for a moment there

[slaeshjag@bitbang.social]

@eniko @slaeshjag there's so many dimensions to that equation, so you kinda have to look at each scenario as a whole. You won't be having a great time with 32-bit data on original 68000 either, despite 32-bit registers :P

[efi@chitter.xyz]

@eniko rude

[mangled_pixel@kind.social]

@eniko I'm unfamiliar with bismuth, but this sounds like something that will either turn out to be complete and utter genius, or a spectacular but fascinating mess. Either way, I say go for it! 😄

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mangled_pixel i've posted about it a bit on my blog https://enikofox.com/tags/bismuth/

[mangled_pixel@kind.social]

@eniko Oh it's something you developed? Didn't realise that (looks awesome btw), in that case SUPER go for it! 😛

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mangled_pixel yeah. the short version is i got tired of having to do both a parser *and* a compiler/interpreter every time i started a new programming language project and bismuth separates the two

[bri7@social.treehouse.systems]

@eniko @mangled_pixel my somewhat similar if you squint project is motivated more by spite than exhaustion