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Okay that's neat. There's a slashdot thread from 21 years ago discussing this. People were just as bewildered then as I am today. :)
Every time I see a link to source forge, it makes me wonder about what will kill github.

Is it technical? Will a better code management tool show up? Technically superior, or just less user hostile?

Or is it a business issue? Will Microsoft bollocks it up?

I cannot believe that git and github are the pinnacle. I really hope I see at least what comes next, and hopefully the thing after, in my professional lifetime.

fossil and fossilhub...

Maybe some web 3.0 distributed model.

After git itself – patch-based systems like pijul. But it won't be easy to overcome the inertia. Git is just that popular.
The developer would abandon this due to the inadequacies of the 6502 to handle a language like Java. He didn't give up though!

> PLASMA is a combination of operating environment, virtual machine, and assembler/compiler matched closely to the 6502 architecture. It is an attempt to satisfy a few challenges surrounding code size, efficient execution, small runtime and flexible code location. By architecting a unique bytecode that maps nearly one-to-one to the higher-level representation, the compiler can be very simple and execute quickly on the Apple II for a self-hosted environment. A modular approach provides for incremental development and code reuse. The syntax of the language is heavily influenced by assembly, Pascal, and C.

https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA

Wow, most amazing part of this, is it's on sourceforge. I mean i guess there's "some" effort in transfering to something else, but wow. 2022.
UCSD P System comes full circle

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