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Well, as Jeff Atwood famously said [0], "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript". I guess that applies to embedded systems too

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Atwood





Well, wasn't Fabrice Bellard the guy who built a virtual machine with JS so that you could run Linux within the browser?

https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=riscv64&url=fedora33...

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Fabrice is an absolute legend. Most people would be content with just making QEMU, but this guy makes TinyC and FFmpeg and QuickJS and MicroQuickJS and a bunch of other huge projects.

I am envious that I will never anywhere near his level of productivity.

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Not just programming either; he invented a mathematical technique for calculating the nth hex digit of pi

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And thanks to that we can run Linux in a PDF as well..

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Indeed

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

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Sounds a bit like rule 35 of the Internet.

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