Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anthk Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World" Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 21:49:18 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <87bjtn2hct.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:49:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0fe3b2e22e51509dd92019741ef21191"; logging-data="3492408"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/sj17VhDy8iPS+6hqY/Tbt" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (OpenBSD) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J1hrJZHzFrZB5tqVOGoXY3cM21w= Bytes: 2765 On 2025-03-31, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote: > In article , > anthk wrote: >>On 2025-03-29, mhx wrote: >>>> Writing a gopher, irc >>>> and some small usenet client would be a breeze. >>> >>> That should be the least of our worries when the world ends? >>> >>> -marcel >> >>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. >> >>More than 'the end of the world', think about 'non reliable >>sources of power', shitty internet connections and so on. >> >>DuskOS with TCP/IP, gopher/irc and maybe some basic soundcard >>support would be great for low end i386 machines. > > 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! > > 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'. > > 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.