[HN Gopher] VisibleV8
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       VisibleV8
        
       Author : weakfish
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2022-03-31 18:58 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | rektide wrote:
       | There was a v8 fork a long time ago that had persistence built
       | in. You could kill the process, & start a new one & everything
       | was just as it was.
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       | I love this kind of stuff. Programming languages are boring,
       | hardly any different from one another. But building an
       | interesting enriching runtime that makes it more clear what is
       | happening, what is going on? Thatcs awesome. That's how computing
       | starts to level up. Long hope but some day i believe software
       | will better be able to say what it's doing so much more elegantly
       | that software itself will become more interesting, that we'll
       | start to see more incidental curiosity & exploration, some
       | bridging of thr gulf between user & developer.
       | 
       | I had a Google Summer of Code project under Codehaus, many years
       | ago, adding some similar instrumentation to Mono & .NET. A bunch
       | of stupid bytecode rewriting, nowhere near this cool. But tickles
       | me to see!
        
         | whitten wrote:
         | So would merging the two codebases be worth the effort ?
         | 
         | Any idea how to find the second code base ?
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | Anyone else expecting the Revell model engine?
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       | https://www.revell.com/products/visible-v-8-engine.html
        
         | Findecanor wrote:
         | Yes I did... Revell's Visible V8 Engine model kit is very well
         | known among a special group of nerds: Those who build their own
         | replicas of props from the original Star Wars movies. (I am one
         | of those nerds ...)
         | 
         | Parts in the kit had been used as "greeblies", glued onto lots
         | of different props in The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of
         | the Jedi. This includes droids, helmets, rank badges and other
         | applications on clothing, and "blasters" (guns): most
         | popularly, the pistols used by the popular characters Han Solo,
         | Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett.
         | 
         | Here's a list of parts and what they were used for, but I think
         | it is far from complete: <http://partsofsw.com/v8parts.htm>
         | 
         | Not only are original model kit parts used, but prop replica
         | enthusiasts also trade casts of them.
        
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