C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell(gist.github.com)

177 points by gaigalas 6 months ago | 56 comments

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

Using VLC to watch an m3u8 playlist at a URL with custom Referrer and User Agent(gist.github.com)

22 points by chatmasta 2 years ago | 10 comments

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard(gist.github.com)

102 points by jdauriemma 7 months ago | 93 comments

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)

322 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 237 comments

A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.