I can tell you there is a lot of appetite for other languages. I looked at the project and the amount of stuff that would need to be rewritten to work with multiple languages was daunting. I would consider working on making your documentation and workflow functional with multiple languages.
Lots of people have tried similar projects in other languages but as far as I know none have persevered.
Personally I think it's important to have one person in charge who is able to approve of the quality of all the project's output; for now, at SE, that person is me and I'm only an expert in English.
I am interested. I learned some basic 8086 assembly during university, read some books on reverse engineering, but never went anywhere further. BTW, are you working on a open source project?
Just curious, why would you swap out a live link unless it is malicious or disingenuously reposting content from another source? Isn’t there value in a diversity of information sources and/or narrative dialog etc., even if sometimes some other source has a more detailed or better written article? Wouldn’t the better response be to post the other article and let that one win on merit?
Article quality makes a big difference to discussion quality.
Eventually we'll let a submission have more than one URL associated with it so there will be sets of links rather than just a single link - but even then there should be one singled out as somehow canonical.
Answering those questions first requires a standard of value to evaluate the options. HN is a rare site that sets an explicit standard for posts: they should “[gratify] one's intellectual curiosity”.
It’s not a great standard, partly because “gratify” implies a whole set of metaphysical value judgements. But it is better than none at all and can be reasonably inferred to place value on attributes like objectivity, expertise, comprehensiveness, and conciseness.
Should links be swapped even if there isn’t anything technically wrong with the original? Yes, if the replacement is better at gratifying intellectual curiosity.
Is there value if diversity of sources? Yes, but not sources that exhibit obvious bias, are poorly written, or woefully incomplete.
Wouldn’t it be better to post another article instead? Maybe, if both articles are good.
> Wouldn’t the better response be to post the other article and let that one win on merit?
Whether things bubble up to the front page has a little to do with merit and a lot to do with luck or timing. It is not uncommon to replace a poor source that has nevertheless made it to the front page with a higher quality article.
Isn't it a misnomer to call it a "compiler"? Even it's github README says otherwise,
> distcc is not itself a compiler, but rather a front-end to the GNU C/C++ compiler (gcc), or another compiler of your choice. All the regular gcc options and features work as normal.
I guess it depends. You use this software to convert your source code into the binary blobs efficiently. From high level, it behaves like a compiler, but internals are just using other compilers.
A lot of other compilers are the same way. gcc and g++ are higher level wrappers around their low level compiling and linking executables. It depends how you define the terms, including what you mean by "program".
20+ years ago I used distcc + jpegtran to rotate a few thousand jpegs. From what I remember I just had to write the Makefile as you would normally.
I think the end result was that the transfer time at 10mbps speeds made it take longer than it would have just transforming locally, but it was neat to see it work!
