Posts by Andreas Røsdal

The Zig project is going nowhere

Zig keeps improving as a programming language. Unfortunately, its management increasingly seems determined to make it a bad choice for the people who actually want to use it.

Pele: a reimplementation of Mermaid

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Pele, Obsidian's new Mermaid graph renderer, has no DOM dependency and no runtime dependencies, which means it runs on GraalJS on a stock JDK, as well as being a very nice drop-in replacement for client-side Mermaid.

Because It's Not Fun Enough

Andrew Oram asked why programming languages rise and fall, and quoted the answer without noticing. Programming is a vocation, an art, and a job. Make any of those harder than they need to be, and your language survives exactly as long as it can't be replaced.