Richard Feldman (May 13 2024 at 02:09): Richard Feldman (May 13 2024 at 02:09):so I remember reading about Actually Portable Executables and it just occurred to me that there's actually a real potential use case for them: portable Roc scripts compiled to binaries for systems that don't have Roc installed
Richard Feldman (May 13 2024 at 02:11):in theory we could support this if the surgical linker is aware of the possibility of having ELF, PE, and Mach-O headers in the same binary, once we have surgical linking code that can already support all of those individually
Richard Feldman (May 13 2024 at 02:12):the host could be written in Cosmopolitan
Richard Feldman (May 13 2024 at 02:13):it's an interesting idea to me because this is a cool concept but today you have to write C to get it, and it's interesting to think that Roc is potentially the best-positioned language to provide a totally ergonomic experience for building Actually Portable Executables!
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