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catdawg

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    Comment #32412390

    The article was written in 2001.

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    Comment #32412342

    If you want to work on "AAA" games, I don't think there are many companies left using it to this scale. An engine where those kind of games are developed almost fully in Lua, AFAIK…

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    Comment #32412233

    Most of the time nothing is used. The thing is that iterating is so quick, that you find the problems really fast. Although, I've been using luacheck https://github.com/mpeterv/lua…

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    Comment #32409301

    I've worked now for 3 years on a large lua game code base, over 4000 files, 1.5 million lines of code. In the first week or so, I was a bit weirded out by the lack of language feat…

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    Comment #28797459

    Yeah, I had exactly this problem before. I tried to wrap my head around how to actually do it geometrically, but thankfully had the much easier idea of just using the blend op. Thi…

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    Comment #27073459

    I've tried Beyond Burgers and I quite like them. Sure it's not the same, but honestly, I don't really care that it tastes the same. I've also tried other burgers that do not try to…

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    Comment #25941550

    I think the problem here is that we moved away from Monarchies/Feudalism for a reason. If we let single people or families completely control the direction of legislation and justi…

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    Comment #25915390

    I think this is more of an issue of sustainability. I wish that there would be some system where each product that is put on the market would have to provide a sustainability analy…

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    Comment #25158436

    I think any technology where you can get something done quickly, and blurs the line between production and prototyping, gets a bad reputation because a lot of people misuse it. Ess…

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    Comment #24171208

    Could something like this be used as the renderer for desktop applications? Instead of running a full fledged browser like electron, you basically just write all the logic in rust,…

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    Comment #24156155

    Just hypothetically here, what would the App Store look like if it didn't take a cut? Let's say everything stays the same, obviously, Apple would earn less money but let's ignore t…

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    Comment #23699796

    I'm working on a huge existing game dev project that is done in lua, and I can totally agree with you. The last project I did before this one was in, of all things, Typescript, so …

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    Comment #18647962

    If you're gonna die...