[HN Gopher] Show HN: LoongArch Userspace Emulator
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       Show HN: LoongArch Userspace Emulator
        
       https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/notes-on-libloong-loongarch-64-b...
        
       Author : fwsgonzo
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-12-24 12:40 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | anthk wrote:
       | I'd love this for Sparc/Solaris. I know IE5 was propietary, but I
       | would test is with educational purposes (and a perfect example on
       | how libre code can still run under modern Unixen without too many
       | issues unlike IE5)
       | 
       | As libre examples:
       | 
       | - Arena browser
       | 
       | - MosaicCK
       | 
       | - XGopher/Xrn
       | 
       | - VRGopher
       | 
       | - XNedit, even with UTF8 support
       | 
       | - Most window managers
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       | - Most libre Motif applications (and tons of them are really
       | nice)
       | 
       | - Libred Xephem. Yep, I know, Celestia, KSTars, planetaries with
       | even Vulkan support... but for astronomic data, Xephem has
       | zillions of details.
       | 
       | You would say that these tools has no value, until you can
       | quickly edit some EPS file from LaTeX under XFig.
        
       | Imustaskforhelp wrote:
       | Fwsgonzo, what a legend man!!
       | 
       | I am not kidding but before seeing this post, I had commented
       | about my experiences in the libriscv discord server (I am the
       | person who had created the AUR arch repository for simplekvm but
       | had to pull them down)
       | 
       | For reference:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413053#46415223
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       | Call this luck or whatever, but I really appreciate libriscv and
       | I will definitely try to be more active, A ~77% of native and a
       | possible ~90% potentially in a fairly permissive license allows
       | the doors to be opened up for really fast sandboxes.
       | 
       | I recently built a (although private repo) where you can ssh into
       | something and it would directly run wasm and it turns out that
       | you can convert golang directly to wasm (by bootstrapping the
       | golang from scratch using gotip and the help of one stackoverflow
       | post :) )
       | 
       | The reason I didn't try to disclose it was that there was a minor
       | issue in simple logic which kept me bugging me off and I had
       | decided to use AI to basically glue me ssh
       | https://github.com/gliderlabs/ssh with wasm but I wasn't so sure
       | about publishing it after the recent rob-pike's incident and I
       | found it a bit of bad taste to use AI after that and what should
       | be my disclosure policy be but I hope its an acceptable use (of
       | prototyping) considered by the general programming community and
       | let me know if ssh-wasm or similar interests libriscv as I had
       | evaluated libriscv and even installed simplekvm once again after
       | an year or so but it had some issues running a rather simple
       | main.go file and I think that LoongArch can be another good
       | usecase for something like this.
       | 
       | I actually built it and am thinking of creating a simple place
       | where people can upload simple applications (in wasm or any other
       | format) and then get an ssh link, they can ssh into or even an
       | xterm instance or just, quick efficient sandboxing unlocks a lot
       | of opportunities not previously thought of and your project is
       | another step towards it so kudos for building it!
        
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