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Is it a "javascript application" or a "page with text that uses javascript for dynamic features"...

Y'all both are making great tools but consider giving a read-only view of the page when javascript is disabled. After disabling JS this gives me a blank white screen: https://athen…

You sure? https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4022#25046 edit: the docs seem to say you're right, maybe that forum post is outdated but it's from nim's author.

Not the commenter but which one of these is the defer generating? // option 1 try { fp = os.open(x) fp.read() } finally { fp.close() } // option 2 fp = os.open(x) try { fp.read() }…

Nim's defer just wraps the current scope in a try/finally, with the deferred code running in the finally. It is probably better just to use try/finally directly because it's more e…

You can still hold on to references to textures and meshes you uploaded to the GPU without using a full-blown scene graph. Some state is necessary no doubt, but this seems more lik…

That makes sense, but it seems like a case of building an abstraction to solve a problem caused by another abstraction. If a scene graph creates a new chore for me that necessitate…

That looks neat but why would you need a react-style reconciler to render a webgl scene? It's immediate mode...every frame is rendered according to the latest state available. What…

Crawford says nobody truly followed in his footsteps but I think Jason Rohrer qualifies. The two even shot a documentary together, and the scene where Crawford showed off his Story…

Yeah it's a bit bifurcated. Internally there's a lot of coupling -- HTML embedded directly in the C code and whatnot. This could be resolved if tools could be built on top of fossi…

It would at least be far less of an issue. I don't see anyone being confused that https://github.com/facebook/react is the official repo, and not https://github.com/react/react . I…

I wasn't even addressing the crates.io team, i was addressing the author of the post.

The quote was a guideline, not a requirement. Cognitect (who makes the clojure CLI tool) doesn't even control clojars, the main clojure maven repo, so they wouldn't be able to enfo…

I didn't choose the shorter names because i "care[d] about having shorter names", i did so defensively, because i figured if i chose `net.sekao/iglu`, someone else would choose `ig…

You really should look to other ecosystems and see what lessons they've learned. In java, packages are normally "namespaced" by the author's reverse domain name, like `org.lwjgl/lw…

I think the instrumenting and generator stuff gets disproportionate attention. For me by far the biggest win from spec has been with parsing. This completely changes how you'd writ…

Deprecated, not removed. In fact opengl will still be supported in the new ARM macs.

Interesting. When you say "save and restore state", do you mean actually serializing it and loading it later? In what situation would you want to do this? Not doubting that there i…

Webgl doesn't have this problem since it runs those functions on a context object. But yeah i wish there was a way to do that with opengl.

It is pretty wild, though mine wasn't quite as bad. It ended up clocking in at 650 lines. I guess part of that is because nim doesn't have braces... https://github.com/oakes/vulkan…

It's things like this that make me not worry about sticking with opengl. It's supported everywhere, fast enough for my uses, and is exactly the level of abstraction i want to be at…

For nim i like this one: https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill It is immediate mode so you render the entire UI every tick, though it is smart enough to not actually redraw things t…