ChunkDev 🦋 @chunkdev.bsky.social · Nov 22 This is my first time implementing class inheritance via vtables (in my tiny Kotlin runtime). A::foo() vs B::foo() get resolved through vtables in the generated code if they cannot be resolved statically. Seeing it work correctly is more satisfying than it should be. #kotlin
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what?
why would you want to do this to yourself? (serious question)
I can only relate this to writing my first recursive expression evaluator and seeing it work correctly.
waa i wanna understand how android apps work
Why do you need a vtable? Can't it be statically resolved here?
This makes me wish I had chosen the Compilers course when I was studying computer science. I had just gone through Operating Systems which was basically writing MINIX from scratch, and was burnt out on all this detail-oriented stuff. I audited a dozen or so courses and found it very interesting. 👍👍👍
I wish
Shut it all down... Watch the world, how has paper docs? Shut it all down... Waste of time space...
When
For real. The rush of getting a program working.
Why does kotlin needs "fun" for methods?
There is no "than it should be". It's always exactly as satisfying as it should be.
Respect! You keep learning and doing. Thank you for sharing your journey. Going to follow you. 👊🖖
Felt the same way in school making my first compiler work. No feeling like it.
I’m not familiar with the environment you’re working in, but I absolutely know the feeling.
Sexy! (: