kazinator 6 years ago

> Windows

> No, wait. really ???

Dev should check out https://www.kylheku.com/cygnal

If you can compile this for Cygwin, you can deploy it as a native Windows application with Cygnal's fork of cygwin1.dll (plus other needed DLL's from Cygwin).

Console support is fine; even programs that use termios and ANSI codes directly work in a Windows console (like out of cmd.exe).

That was one of the primary motivations for Cygnal; I wanted a decent quality Windows port of a programming language with a well-developed REPL: something someone could just install from a regular installer, and then run out of cmd.exe with the same interactive experience as on Unixes.

rhardih 6 years ago

What's this!? No Javascript runtime, no NPM package dependencies. Can software really be built without it?

I jest of course. This is really cool and nice to see something like this, make the front page of HN for once!

  • hombre_fatal 6 years ago

    Well, the downside is that now I can't be arsed to download/install it (not that it works on my platform). And the repository comes with a lot of build cruft instead of just some src files.

    Trade offs, as usual.

    • dahfizz 6 years ago

      It's one command to download and install the snap. How is that more onerous than pulling in hundreds of packages from npm?

      And having "build cruft" is a feature for most non web devs. It would be trivial to set up a separate repo with all the build tools and configuration, but we want it nearby.

      There's no tradeoffs here, IMO.

    • saghm 6 years ago

      > And the repository comes with a lot of build cruft instead of just some src files.

      Genuine question: what development toolchain lets you make a repo _doesn't_ have a bunch of files for the build process? GP specifically mentioned JavaScript, which I feel has an above-average amount of tooling in projects due to preprocessing the code in various ways being super common.

usmannk 6 years ago

This is awesome! It will be really helpful to me while reversing or doing CTFs. Previously I'd hack shit together in python to do this stuff one-off.

  • badtuple 6 years ago

    Same. This is so much better.

    The number of times I redo the same thing in a repl or with weird scripts saved in /tmp or ~/ is kind of nuts....but generalizing them into something like this takes tons of work. Kudos!

    • cpach 6 years ago

      ”generalizing them into something like this takes tons of work”

      It sure does. I was really impressed when I saw the level of polish in the README. Mad props!

  • stdcall83 6 years ago

    I built it for myself in the office because I noticed i'm launching the desktop calculator too much while developing drivers, and I had to use the mouse for that, phew...

mikroskeem 6 years ago

Finally, a modern application without Electron + big-js-framework bloat... Amazing job! Gets my star :)

airstrike 6 years ago

This is really cool + extra points for the vi/vim keybindings

jjoonathan 6 years ago

This might just replace the radare2 "?" command for me!

asdfman123 6 years ago

> hex calculator in ncurses

Okay, you're pretty much asking for the wrath of God here. Bonus points if you can compile it down to 666 KB.