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Cosmopolitan Third Edition (justine.lol)
34 points by tosh on Feb 1, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments


> It actually goes 2x faster than the native WIN32 port that the Emacs authors wrote on their own. Cosmo Emacs loads my dotfiles in 1.2 seconds whereas GNU Emacs on Windows loads them in 2.3 seconds.

That's very cool. Well done! Still amazing that this whole cross OS binary thing even works.



I tried to figure out what this library does, but was unable to. Would someone be able to explain? Thanks!


> Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-anywhere run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS on AMD64 and ARM64 with the best possible performance.


Um? Should it be noted that cosmopolitan is currently at version 4?

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/4.0.2


Has she stopped using nazi and racist dogwhistles in their projects, or are we supposed to ignore that Justine is a known, and proud, 'technofascist'?


I'm fine ignoring it.

Do you think there is no tainted "techno fascist" code running on your devices right now?


Where is this coming from?



I'd love to know more but there's a zero percent chance I'm paying for a Daily Beast subscription to access a 2014 entertainment column. Oh well.


It isn’t paywalled for me, but here is an archive copy: https://archive.is/IU10S


Thanks— Could be my vpn.




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