[HN Gopher] Loonies for Loongsons
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       Loonies for Loongsons
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2026-04-14 17:14 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | Fwirt wrote:
       | Quick plug for this guy who built a LoongArch emulator for use as
       | a... scripting engine?
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       | https://github.com/libriscv/libloong
        
         | gnabgib wrote:
         | There was a flurry of LoongArch at the time, some discussion on
         | that post (43 points, 3 months ago, 12 comments)
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375067
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         |  _Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture_
         | (162 points, 54 comments)
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334333
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         |  _Loongarch Improvements with Box64_ (66 points, 6 comments)
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514807
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         |  _Box64 Expands into RISC-V and LoongArch territory_ (45
         | points, 7 comments)
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751460
        
       | rigonkulous wrote:
       | I worked with a kernel dev at an industrial embedded company who
       | absolutely loved longsoon and insisted we add it to our platform
       | stack - he did get some traction on the idea, I have to admit
       | (the lab was keen on multi-architecture build budgets..) - but ..
       | the machines just didn't show up. ARM ate everyones lunch.
       | 
       | I know he, personally, flew to China and returned with a Longsoon
       | laptop, but .. we can't all fly to China.
        
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