I started by trying to reimplement the METAFONT language, adding support for real-time rendering with OpenGL. Eventually, I decided to introduce some incompatible changes, creating a new language. But it still retains a syntax and internal logic very similar to METAFONT.
This new language also supports animation, and since it is part of a larger project (a game engine), it can be used not only for font rendering but also to generate textures and sprites for games.
The language is successfully compiling to WebAssembly, and I’m currently working on a web page with tutorials, documentation and examples where you can modify the code and instantly see the results. Since this is a literate programming project, there is also an English and Portuguese version of the code. But the english version still needs considerable polishing.
> FWIW, I am working to reimplement parts of METAFONT in my current project (need the curves, and want an implementation which will also allow me to write out a .mp file) and I'm finding _METAFONT: The Program_ very helpful.
I have a reimplementation of parts of METAFONT as a hobby project. In fact, it is no longer METAFONT; it is a language based on METAFONT. However, I used the same Hobby's algorithm to generate curves. It understands pens, paths and renders it to an OpenGL texture. The results are not compatible with Knuth's METAFONT, as I use floating-point numbers instead of the fixed-point arithmetic. It is still under development and needs some cleaning, but if what you are developing is for personal use or is free software compatible with GNU Affero GPL, perhaps parts of the code, or even the whole, could be of use.
He is the founder of modern China, who ended the century of humiliation and restored the country's independence. Yes, it was messy. But what the west was doing against the country and the previous situation was not better.
oh no. Pooh, you ate all the propaganda instead of the honey.
> The systemic media control in authoritarian regimes is often inspired by China’s propaganda model. China (178th) remains the world’s largest jail for journalists and reentered the bottom trio of the Index, coming just ahead of North Korea (179th). -- https://rsf.org/en/rsf-world-press-freedom-index-2025-econom...
Is it surprising that the places with more conflicts has poor reporting ranking (according to this model)?
A media control does not need government to act openly. A mind-numbing patriotism can be as effective. Look at US reporting on the aftermath of 9/11. How many papers argued against Iraq or Afghanistan war? How many papers are talking about Gaza now? or even covering hands-off rallies?
Afghanistan is more complicated than that, due to the collective shock of a successful attack on US soil. Bush had to do something or the American people would have lynched him.
Iraq, though? There was tons of opposition to the Iraq War. It was only approved because people were lied to about the "weapons of mass destruction." Once the truth was out, a lot of us felt betrayed.
Iraq is a large part of why that particular segment of the Republican party (the neocons) lost its power. Which is a shame, really, given who replaced them...
The country was completely subjulgated by England, was sacked by several western powers. See the Opium Wars, the unequal treaties, several lands were stolen.
Thanks, but I was looking for an explanation of the "hardly more bloody" comment. I briefly looked up casualties for the things you listed and it's not even remotely close to the deaths attribute to Mao.
Read up on the Boxer Rebellion, then, if you're looking for large numbers of casualties.
Always amazing to me how we're all supposed to be outraged for chinese/Russians who suffered under particular rulers, while also being generally hostile to them as nations and people.
40m 80m. Does it really matter? It doesn’t change the fact he starved his country while he lived like a king all in the name of making China look better and richer than it was. It also doesn’t change the fact that it wasn’t until China opened up and embraced capitalism and rolled back Mao policies that it actually grew.
That's one way to describe Mao implementing such incompetent and exploitative policies that it leads to over 40 million Chinese people dying in famines and purges.
> But, "the economy" is generally just a descriptor for what people need/want, and what they're willing to do for it.
It’s not exactly about what people want, but rather what capital needs to grow and increase its value. Most people have no say in these decisions and are left with only two options: comply or starve.
> Dubious” charges against Lula? — He was convicted of accepting a seaside apartment as a bribe for helping the OAS construction company get lucrative deals with state oil firm Petrobras.
Yes, since nobody yet proved that the apartment was Lula's apartment. And tt was discovered several problems with Lula's charges, which was judged by a person that later was rewarded by Bolsonaro with a job as minister.
> Also Bolsonaro was termed “far right,” but Lula not called “far left?”
Lula is not far left, but center left. He is a social democrat at best, not a communist.
Most of these cases were about former chinese areas that were occupied and stolen by the west. Suddenly, when China wanted them back, western countries begun caring about democracy and freedom. Compare this with current western powers which commited atrocities all around the world with colonies, US which attacked and invaded areas which were never theirs in Texas and Hawaii, and supported all sort of genocide, coups and invasions when countries around the entire world did not aligned with its capitalist system.
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