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I mentioned fast hot reload because your original comment complained about compilation speed, and some people might not know you were referring to the speed of compiling your custo…

I use Luau with my Unity game for all gameplay code (60k+ loc so far). I agree the docs could be improved, especially for custom integrations. The new type system + LSP aren't grea…

Some friends of mine played Descent competitively, and I was amazed to learn about so-called trichording: to maximize your speed, you need to press multiple keys at the same time t…

I use Luau in my games and tools [1], and I recommend it. While I can't speak to transitioning to it from Lua, since I didn't do that, I can say that it's fast, stable, sandboxing …

Finger snapping is fascinating too. I always assumed the sound happens when your finger rubs quickly against your thumb. But it’s actually after that, when your finger strikes the …

My emotional journey with Val having just learned about it today: Oh neat, a new systems language, probably nothing but let's take a peek. Docs look legit. Hmm some thoughtful idea…

A friend of mine is making a new city-builder called Metropolis 1998 [1]. If you're into SimCity 2000 specifics, you might also enjoy his dev updates where he posts about his pixel…

When I started making a game [0] last year, first thing I did was write a little Unity script that takes a screenshot of the opening scene, counts current lines of code using CLOC …

The most remarkable thing about "Bret Victor's vision" is how different people have interpreted what his vision even is. His ideas are multi-faceted, so they inspire in several imp…

It's great to see you applying the latest tech to this idea. We got pretty far with this a few years ago using more basic ML/NLP. The app was called Moatboat: https://twitter.com/m…

Seeing a masterful Rothfuss excerpt right next to its lesser, AI-generated counterpart (in a sibling comment) gives me pause, today.

As others have mentioned, "making software programmable" isn't really landing for me. In the tradition of borrowing terms from the games industry (where we often see early populari…

The makers of Dion now work at Epic. My guess is they're contributing to Verse [0], a new programming language (environment?) being worked on at Epic, which could be of interest to…

JetBrains MPS [0] is worth a look for inspiration. Like some of the other projects mentioned here, it's an editor on top of an Abstract Syntax Tree. You can use it to make DSLs tha…

This is a good idea. Thanks for posting about it. It does get lonely. I'm a former YC founder and I left Apple earlier this year to be a solo game dev. Making games (compared to ap…

> that's very likely a 'licensing grey area'. Agreed, and this is on my mind as I work in this direction. By the way, I was really inspired by The Nebula Device back in the day, an…

> has anyone even proposed an "engine agnostic" IDE experience for game dev? I'm working in this direction. My focus is on higher-level editors for making worlds, meshes, animation…

Very interesting. Like the sibling comment, I'm also curious about your API for this. I've been using Unity in a similar way but with Luau (a gradually typed Lua by Roblox) for the…

"March away from the sounds of the guns. Observe from a distance, but do not join the fray. Make a fray of your own." — E.O. Wilson

I used to work at WordPress.com (Automattic) after they acquired our startup Simplenote. P2 was great. Now I'm at one of the big tech companies that is suddenly all-remote. I miss …