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Totally fine to paint in broad strokes, and I would probably lean towards that perspective myself. However there are some games that show off the programming more than others, at l…

In 2024? What a ridiculous notion

My wife has suggested the latter a few times and it definitely seems like the most realistic approach. I have a small game engine I've worked on off and on again over the last few …

I've made several half-attempts at this over the years, but it always ends up falling to the wayside when life gets hectic. Maybe one of these days I'll finally push through though…

I would've focused on game engine development and gone into the game industry instead of chasing the money in web/web-adjacent tech. It's almost impossible to make that kind of cha…

I stopped at 1144 and 114. This could really use more of a difficulty ramp. After level 20 or so I really didn't notice it getting any harder and it sort of got boring. There was _…

Good tests only render SST superfluous insofar as the person writing the tests is capable of never making a mistake. The thing about good static type systems is they don't typicall…

> Who is "we"? "we" is everyone in the industry. I recognize it's more of an evolutionary thing, it's just my stance that the current environment is pushing us towards an evolution…

I didn't really think you were saying they should be used for everything, but I do think discouraging branching out into better suited tools perpetuates using the lowest common den…

EDIT: formatting This feels a lot like a self-fulfilling prophecy that Javascript just happened to be chosen for. - Javascript is "easy" and the only option for browsers, so lets t…

This line of thinking is precisely why node and TypeScript are so pervasive. It has nothing to do with them being the right tool for the right job and everything to do with perceiv…

Modern JS is a passable language only after a tremendous amount of time and effort was invested to retrofit it as such. For all of the purported isomorphic benefits, I still don't …

My team helps run and deploy a python service that is entirely CPU bound. It accepts an input, performs some computation, and returns a result without any sort of I/O outside of th…

Most of my bitching that JavaScript is slow comes from node, which is quite far removed from the DOM. Fast and slow are relative terms, of course, but JavaScript's language feature…

I didn't say no one ever has, just that there's a very strong negative reaction even when they don't have reasoning for it

I struggle to understand how we benefit that much from the same wall clock times mapping roughly to the same times of day across time zones. It seems like there's pros and cons to …

I've wanted to do this for years. Every time I mention this to someone I get a surprisingly visceral reaction against it even when they can't think of any real reasons why this wou…

The actual data that generates those pixels is likely much smaller than the pixels themselves, at least for anything hardware accelerated

Java has a bad reputation for being bloated and/or slow. I find Java and Go to be fairly similar (both GC'd, both fairly high performance, both statically typed), and yet Go has a …

Things like GATs also allow those smart people to add sorely needed features, like async traits, which the rest of us plebeians can benefit greatly from

Optimistically, you should definitely be able to assume this. In practice, though, I wouldn't. I've been in school with and interviewed many a college grad that had virtually no co…

So knowledge workers are paid for their time, therefore they are explicitly _not_ paid based on their hours worked? You're paid for the value you bring. Sure, part of that value mi…

> There’s definitely no such thing as the WFO’er that wants to force their preferences upon others any more than there are WFH’ers doing the same thing. Given that the WFH crowd ha…

I'm a little over a week without alcohol, but I drank every day because I have a lot of difficulty winding down and relaxing. I still do, but I've made the personal decision to pri…

More and more I think this idea has merit. When I was still deep in the go kool-aid it was always shocking to me how difficult it was for some folks to use the language. "It's so s…