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Justine Tunney - Redbean and the Actually Portable Executable (Speakeasy JS, May 2021) - Despite the channel, this is about a C executable that "runs anywhere", including from boot (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ICastFist to c/programming

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Video is nearly 3 years old now, but I think it's worth watching. Her presentation starts at around 2:30.

Basically, she explains how Redbean, a tiny (~450kb) and very fast C http server, works and how the same executable can be used to deploy it on most operating systems (she starts explaining that around 14:30)

Justine is also the mind behind Sector LISP, Lambda Calculus in 383 bytes, considerable optimizations to LLamaAI, plus several other things.

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[–] onlinepersona 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

🤔 I swear I've seen this multiplatform single executable before. Maybe nexe isn't it, but as soon as she whipped out the hexcode and talking about binary headers, it felt more than a dejavu. Someone did it years ago, put it in github, and it was called an abomination.

It's very similar in vein to this script that can be executed by bash and powershell.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] ICastFist 1 points 5 months ago

If you do find it, be sure to tell, I'd love to take a look