Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C

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• Love the examples you've implemented in Micron:

  The examples subdirectory (https://github.com/rochus-keller/Micron/tree/master/examples) contains:

    - a Smalltalk-80 implementation,
    - the original 1976 P4 Pascal compiler,
    - the Scheme 9 virtual machine,
    - the Project Oberon System running on the host,
    - and the Micron System described in the textbook, the migrated Project Oberon System natively running on RISC-V.*

  andsoitis 3d ago

• Would be great to see Micron up on Rosetta with a good selection of examples ported there. Great work...will definitely be having a look!

  berkeleynerd 3d ago

• It seems like the language requires Pascal/C89 style declarations on top of the scope. I've never been sure why Pascal developers have stuck to this convention for so long. Is it the zeal to preserve single-pass compilation?

  HexDecOctBin 1h ago

• Congratulations!

  I've always been super interested in Oberon (due to my Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi heritage) and even tried things like A2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_(operating_system)) but never fully got into the boat.

  Micron makes me excited to try your latest incarnation.

  andsoitis 3d ago