Dylan Frankland dfrankland

A compile-time 4-Bit Virtual Machine implemented in TypeScript's type system. Capable of running a sample 'FizzBuzz' program.

Syntax emits zero JavaScript.

type RESULT = VM<
  [
    ["push", N_1],         // 1
    ["push", False],       // 2
 ["peek", _], // 3

Understanding Nix Inputs

Every Nix derivation produces a Nix store output that has 3 things:

Executables
Libraries
Data

Executables are always exported using the PATH environment variable. This is pretty much automatic.

GPG signing –

Here is a short guide that will help you setup your environment to create signed commits or signed tags with Git locally. This has been extensively tested on Windows with Git and the Github Desktop application: I use it every day for my professional development projects.

I you face any issue, feel free to leave a comment below.

This document is now at https://gbdev.io/guides/tools.html, please go there instead. It's kept here to avoid breaking links and to preserve history.

Previous versions can be checked out by selecting the "Revisions" tab, and selecting "View file" in the three-dot drop-down menu.

I'm taking down this post. I just posted this as a side comment to explain a sentence on my latest blog post. This wasn't meant to be #1 on HN to start a huge war on functional programming... The thoughts are not well formed enough to have a huge audience. Sorry for all the people reading this. And please, don't dig through the history...

	#!/bin/bash

	# !!WARNING!!
	# This will DELETE all efforts you have put into configuring nix
	# Have a look through everything that gets deleted / copied over

	nix-env -e '.*'

	rm -rf $HOME/.nix-*
	rm -rf $HOME/.config/nixpkgs

	use std::collections::HashMap;
	use std::fmt;
	use std::io;
	use std::num::ParseFloatError;

	/*
	Types
	*/

	#[derive(Clone)]

	# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
	# your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
	# and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).

	{ config, pkgs, ... }:

	{
	imports =
	[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
	./hardware-configuration.nix

	use std::env;
	use std::io;
	use std::io::prelude::*;
	use std::fs::File;

	#[derive(Debug)]
	enum Error {
	Io(io::Error),
	Program(&'static str),
	}

	// make sure to have babel-plugin-preval setup so this import works as expected
	// https://github.com/kentcdodds/babel-plugin-preval
	import docs from "./get-react-docs.js"

	// do whatever you want with all of the component documentation
	function renderDocs() {
	return (
	<div>
	{docs.map(doc => ...)}
	</div>