> TLDR; The C++ standard library sets up exception handling infrastructure early on, allocating memory for an “emergency pool” to be able to allocate memory for exceptions in case malloc ever runs out of memory.

Reminds me of Perl's $^M: https://perldoc.perl.org/variables/$%5EM

In Perl you can "hand-manage" that. This line would allocate a 64K buffer for use in an emergency:

    $^M = 'a' x (1 << 16);

Can I take advantage of you being here and express some desiderata?

1. The quick terminal feature is ghostty's killer feature for me, I switched to ghostty because of it. Could we make it first-class feature? Like, i'd love to have tabs over there too (like in guake/yakuake).

2. I have a white on black theme (white text on black background) but when i split vertically/horizontally, the borders between one shell and the next are not really visible and I have an hard time resizing them... Can you do something about it? Setting the colors of borders would be an okay fix for me.

> The quick terminal feature is ghostty's killer feature for me

Just FYI, it's in Kitty nowadays too: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/quick-access-termina.... The quick-access terminal is a regular terminal, so you get normal tabs, splits, etc. there.

2. I think split-divider-color does what you want.

Any kind of decent democracy would be better than the iranian regime.

From https://uapi-group.org/ :

> Contributing members include people from Ubuntu Core, Debian, GNOME OS, Fedora CoreOS, Endless OS, Arch Linux, SUSE, Flatcar, systemd, image-builder/osbuild, mkosi, tpm2-software, System Transparency, buildstream, BTRFS, bootc, composefs, (rpm-)ostree, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta.

Note systemd, (rpm-)ostree and bootc.

My understanding is that uapi is another initiative but not completely separated from bootc and ostree. Maybe complementary.

Sorry, not completely separate, yes, but some of the parts of the standard (e.g. systemd-sysext for layering "packages") and closely related things like systemd-sysupdate do actually replace parts of this (esp. ostree).

I wonder if that applies to the minix-derived operating system that’s running inside the intel management engine on intel cpus.

(I’m being sarcastic of course)

No offense to picoclaw but comparing to openclaw ona mac mini is misleading at the very best.

I run openclaw on a small self hosted virtual machine, which is essentially free (1gb ram, two 12 years old cpu cores).

Would you tell us what, in your opinion, would be needed for smalltalk to be revived and become a first class language/runtime in modern day?

Is there a known example of that for any language?

Honestly lately I’ve been feeling like this must be the perfect time to move to the US.

Maybe the Panthers were smart enough to accept the help without bothering about the flag.

That ship has sailed, man…

No it has not - if it had, there'd be no need to shout down folk who disagree.

Not everyone buys into the inevitabilism. Why should I read code "author" didn't bother to write?