Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C

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• Love the examples you've implemented in Micron:

  The examples subdirectory (https://github.com/rochus-keller/Micron/tree/master/examples) contains:

    - a Smalltalk-80 implementation,
    - the original 1976 P4 Pascal compiler,
    - the Scheme 9 virtual machine,
    - the Project Oberon System running on the host,
    - and the Micron System described in the textbook, the migrated Project Oberon System natively running on RISC-V.*

  andsoitis 3d ago

• Very impressive work! I'd love to give it a try but my browser blocks download of the precompiled binaries due to it being served over http. I may build from source as it's intriguing. It would be nice to have the command-line compiler have fewer steps to build from source.

  neverartful 41m ago

• Would be great to see Micron up on Rosetta with a good selection of examples ported there. Great work...will definitely be having a look!

  berkeleynerd 3d ago

• "Early examples like UNIVAC and the IBM 7030 were used by scientists working on atomic research. The Cray-1 came along in the mid-70s and accelerated such work to new levels."

  Seymour Cray also designed the CDC 6600, which had a much more immediate impact on IBM et al.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600

  chasil 2h ago

• Congratulations!

  I've always been super interested in Oberon (due to my Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi heritage) and even tried things like A2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_(operating_system)) but never fully got into the boat.

  Micron makes me excited to try your latest incarnation.

  andsoitis 3d ago

• It seems like the language requires Pascal/C89 style declarations on top of the scope. I've never been sure why Pascal developers have stuck to this convention for so long. Is it the zeal to preserve single-pass compilation?

  HexDecOctBin 5h ago

• This seems like an extremely comprehensive work. Look forward to checking out the textbook and examples particularly.

  jsrcout 3h ago