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I just spent 30 minutes reading about this. I'm so shocked that I'm logging in to comment after 5 years of lurking.Justine has built a c library that allows you compile a binary once and have it run it on any os or baremetal. The SAME binary. Quite frankly, that sentence doesn't even make sense to me.Check out https://storage.googleapis.com/justine/cosmopolitan/index.ht...As far as I'm concerned, this is literal magic. Look at the magic numbers: 
https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/37a4c70c3634862d8d...I could go on, but there's no binary portability comparison with any other language. And she has made some pretty neat optimizations.Back in the day, I saw some pretty neat stuff with the ELF format, but this takes the cake.Wow.Edit: 
I'm editing because this is just so bloody absurd.https://storage.googleapis.com/justine/printimage.html$ ./printimage.com someimage.jpgLike wow. And also video.https://storage.googleapis.com/justine/printvideo.htmlI'm struggling to put my shock into words. I've been around.There's engineering. There's academia.But this falls into straight-up wizardry.