The Commodore chunk of retro computing is an extremely small pond. Of which he's an obnoxiously loud voice due to his youtube presence. Much to the chagrin of most of them (and most of us who orbit the greater "retro computing hobby")
Why wouldn't self defense be number one, in many cases/times?
Why wouldn't we simply stop spending on education at break even ROI? (to be clear that's not the same as the education creates a salary bump equal to the tuition ... there are Nth order effects of education that should be priced into my point)
I wasn't familiar with Shedskin, I'll take a look !
The optimization I'm most proud of is native type specialization when possible, allowing many values to stay as int64_t or double instead of generic slow Lua values.
As for eval, Clx is fully ahead-of-time compiled. Supporting it would require embedding an interpreter in the runtime and use an interface with Clx... making it significantly larger and going against the idea of compiling everything ahead of time.
For dynamic code execution, the Lua interpreter is probably the better tool.
Those are reasonable. A business must take account of its stock - a useful thing is happening. A TV station shuts down in the evening as paying for electricity to broadcast and humans to schedule programming that goes unwatched is unproductive. It is not reasonable that a piece of working software in a product I paid a substantial sum of money for, which has no good reason to not work, should not work randomly.
It's really not. Source code, even with no history, can be modified, adapted, ported, fixed, and improved. Having history is nice, but it's way lower marginal utility.
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