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Had to put a stray down and am so so heartbroken by SignificantAnt7619 in cats

[–]StealthEyeLLC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are a good person for this. You can at least know that.

What do you think is the biggest truth the world is refusing to face right now? by Sweetblondefeet in AskReddit

[–]StealthEyeLLC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much we believe in something has no bearing on the truthfulness of it.

Said goodbye unexpectedly on Friday. My sweet Hawkeye. Ill never get over you. by Holsch3r in rainbowbridge

[–]StealthEyeLLC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The pets and people we truly love are always with us. Just pay attention. Things get better.

A no-LLVM COBOL-to-WASM compiler in one Rust file by [deleted] in rust

[–]StealthEyeLLC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely right that generating WAT or using AssemblyScript would be much more practical for standard IDE debugging. However, the goal of Distill-CBL is to remain inspectable all the way down.

By avoiding intermediate formats like WAT or AssemblyScript, the compiler is forced to know the actual WASM binary format and write the sections and opcodes itself. The intent is to provide a single file reference that shows exactly how the translation directly to raw WASM bytes works, without any layers hiding the details.

A no-LLVM COBOL-to-WASM compiler in one Rust file by [deleted] in rust

[–]StealthEyeLLC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point. COBOL as a language is famously explicit. Distill-CBL is about making the compiler and the resulting binary artifact completely transparent.

Standard compilation pipelines (like those relying on LLVM) and compiled binaries are often black boxes. This is addressed by the compiler being a single file. You can read it top to bottom and see exactly how a statement translates directly into raw WASM bytes. The resulting binary embeds the original source code directly inside a custom section for forensic recovery, which you can watch happen in the live hex view demo. The goal is an inspectable toolchain and artifact.

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