Thursday, December 15, 2005

Finished my degree; Factor status update

I have finally completed all the courses required to obtain a BSc Math. Next January, I begin graduate studies in mathematics (more specifically, algebraic topology, or even more specifically, axiomatic homotopy theory via model categories). I'm still working part-time doing Objective C development. This job will wind down in February or March next year. After this my next job will be working as a teaching assistant, doing marking and problem solving tutorials with undergraduate students.

On the Factor front, the Factor web site now runs on the Factor HTTP server. This is long-overdue; the HTTP server has been stable for a while, but I was using SourceForge. Now I have a hosting plan with Linode which gives you a user-mode Linux instance where you can run whatever server software you want. Tomorrow or the day after, DNS will propogate and you will be able to access the new web site at factorcode.org. Until then, you can access it at 69.93.127.154. Let's see how long it stays up.

The AMD64 compiler backend is almost complete. Integer overflow checks need debugging, there's a crash I haven't resolved yet, and the C library interface remains to be ported. I'm also working on a new prettyprinter for source code which does away with syntax noise entirely:

More details soon...

2 comments:

Slava Pestov said...

Why do you think you'll be losing me as a developer?

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, Slava. What are your long-term career goals?