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csdvrx | 10 months ago

> Cosmopolitan is neat hack, but it's not a viable multiplatform executable format, runtime sysytem, or distribution mechanism.

It's the best we have to ensure programs will be kept running. The multiple payloads are like a rosetta stone.

If I had 1 wish, I would make wine support sixel output + VNC to a localhost port + webgl or equivalent to extend this redundancy to GUIs

> Something like WASM + WASI seems much more likely to fulfill this function in the future.

Time will tell, but given 2 binaries (Sun Java vs Windows i386) from the same time period, the one that was "much more likely to fulfill this function in the future" is much harder to use

p-code is a neat technology, but failing at what it was supposed to achieve

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