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I built a completely useless tool that just pretends to do work. It's written in Rust and compiles to Linux, OSX, Windows and the web all from the same code base. The web…",{"value":54,"source":48,"evidence":55},"Built a completely useless tool that pretends to do work, for fun",[56],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},[58,62],{"value":59,"source":48,"evidence":60},"Rust",[61],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},{"value":63,"source":48,"evidence":64},"xterm.js",[65],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},"open_source","launched","unknown",{"praise":70,"objections":102,"requests":110,"questions":125,"alternatives":130},[71,84,91],{"value":72,"source":73,"evidence":74},"Fun and funny; great for movies and hacker-style scenes","commenter",[75,79,83],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"16167641","audiolion","Whenever I watch movies featuring \"hackers\" I always wonder who writes the code to do the random terminal noise to make it look like they are doing something. This is really cool…",{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"16167011","mar77i","This could be something for the movies industry... It's at least better than your average Hollywood OS.",{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},{"value":85,"source":73,"evidence":86},"Excellent browser version that runs without install",[87],{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"16167750","willvarfar","The online version - https:\u002F\u002Fsvenstaro.github.io\u002Fgenact\u002F is absolutely excellent! Hopefully its the beginning of a trend with more apps being available in a browser-window…",{"value":92,"source":73,"evidence":93},"Looks like real compiling and feels convincing",[94,98],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"16168066","fredley","I literally didn't notice when it stopped building and when it started running. Good show.",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"16169706","ohmichel","Same here.",[103],{"value":104,"source":73,"evidence":105},"Very similar to existing hollywood tool",[106],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"16167968","pkd","Extremely similar with multi-window support https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fdustinkirkland\u002Fhollywood",[111,118],{"value":112,"source":73,"evidence":113},"A mode that pretends to compile genact",[114],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"16167554","petertodd","Can you make a mode where it pretends to be compiling genact?",{"value":119,"source":73,"evidence":120},"Mac binaries missing from releases page",[121],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"16167682","sarreph","This may be a stupid question, but I can only see linux \u002F win binaries on the releases page. 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