Articles by Tag #powerpc
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I Built a Rust Compiler for a 20-Year-Old Mac (Borrow Checker and All)
A custom Rust-to-PowerPC compiler written in C, targeting Mac OS X Tiger. It runs on real G4 hardware, has a working borrow checker with NLL, generates AltiVec SIMD code, and implements async/await using the select() syscall. The endgame? Firefox on your 2005 Power Mac.
I'm Porting Node.js 22 to a 20-Year-Old Power Mac G5. It's Going About as Well as You'd Expect.
What happens when you try to build a modern JavaScript runtime on a big-endian PowerPC Mac from 2005? A cascade of patches, linker nightmares, and one very stubborn V8 engine.