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Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by interrealmedium »

avereveard wrote: post #47
interrealmedium wrote: post #40

That's it, I am done. No more serious IT work for me. I am going to become a gamers consultant. If there are people who care enough to make things like this, there must be people who would pay decent money for "professionals" to come in and optimize their factorio game, or their minecraft builds, or to make them feel good about their solution to a Zachtronics puzzle.

> minecraft builds Yeah that's the whole point of Roblox bucks for example, paying creatives for their builds

No doubt, gaming support has been a serious business for a while. Far beyond the gold farming, item trade, and "pay me for voice chat" underground. I'd take a bet that almost everybody reading this who cares about cloud providers has come into contact with companies who started out by providing servers and administration services for Counter Strike or Minecraft.

Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by codetrotter »

MisterBiggs wrote: post #5

Always thought programmatically generating Factorio blueprints was a really cool idea and Verilog seems like a great language to model blueprints, but this repo definitely needs more work before being shared with the world. One of my favorite tools that shows what's possible: https://autotorio.com/example/outpost

> this repo definitely needs more work before being shared with the world

No, don't say that :( I see way too many people that don't want to share their code because they don't think it's tidy enough or complete enough and that they just need to clean it up or adding some more features. But the thing is that they never get around to cleaning it up or adding those features and therefore they never share it. And often times I have seen this happen with stuff that is really good and usable.

"Perfect is the enemy of good" applies 100% in such cases.

Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by naikrovek »

TylerE wrote: post #14
naikrovek wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you think I'm the one gatekeeping, here? holy cow. look in a mirror. it is not the crap out there that I was complaining about. read my comment again. it is the crap (read: non-useful stuff) claiming to be useful . please publish all the stuff you want. useful or not. I don't care. nor does anyone else. don't publish anything crappy (again, I mean non-useful) and claim it is useful. that is my beef. reading comprehen…

Where is this code ever claimed to be useful?

am not talking about this code, and never was.

Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by harry8 »

userbinator wrote: post #36
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would bet it's less than 10,000 in the entire world.

This feels a bit like that classic estimation interview question... Verilog originated in 1984 and educational institutions have been teaching it roughly as long, multiply by how many students graduate each year in an EE-related field and I'm pretty sure the number is far more than that in India alone. Of course, the number of people who know Verilog (and Factorio) enough to implement something like this is going to…

Some saw/earnt vhdl someone after it emerged. ~half? Verilog had a popularity ramp up time of a few years too. I'm going with a much smaller number than you there. Could be way wrong!

Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by pjmlp »

harry8 wrote: post #54
userbinator wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This feels a bit like that classic estimation interview question... Verilog originated in 1984 and educational institutions have been teaching it roughly as long, multiply by how many students graduate each year in an EE-related field and I'm pretty sure the number is far more than that in India alone. Of course, the number of people who know Verilog (and Factorio) enough to implement something like this is going to…

Some saw/earnt vhdl someone after it emerged. ~half? Verilog had a popularity ramp up time of a few years too. I'm going with a much smaller number than you there. Could be way wrong!

VHDL/Verilog is a bit like Pascal/C division used to be, with VHDL having more fans in Europe and Verilog on US, and then the respective countries that do business with them.

At least that is how I understand the market division, it might also be that one of them has already won, not sure about that.

Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by boomlinde »

MisterBiggs wrote: post #44
ac42 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great idea to comment on someone else's post on HN by pointing to related work, but the communication standards of the parent definitely need some work before being unleashed to the world.

> Great idea to comment on someone else's post on HN by pointing to related work Almost every Show HN has references to other similar works in the comments. The point is to have a good discussion and I think talking about similar works is highly relevant.

Hence GP earnestly calling it a great idea.

Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by RugnirViking »

pjmlp wrote: post #55
harry8 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some saw/earnt vhdl someone after it emerged. ~half? Verilog had a popularity ramp up time of a few years too. I'm going with a much smaller number than you there. Could be way wrong!

VHDL/Verilog is a bit like Pascal/C division used to be, with VHDL having more fans in Europe and Verilog on US, and then the respective countries that do business with them. At least that is how I understand the market division, it might also be that one of them has already won, not sure about that.

Can confirm was taught vhdl in my robotics master's degree this year, studying in Europe

Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

spicybright wrote: post #2

They couldn't put in a sentence stating what this actually does?

Verilog is a hardware description language. So for example you could use it to program your FPGA (FPGA is a digital circuit you program from scratch). Factorio is an interesting video game where you basically use limited resources to construct factories that build different objects, the success depending on how well you design and optimize your factories.

Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by oxymoron »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #49
nickysielicki wrote: post #29

I did not expect this to be written in TypeScript. The intersection of people who really understand Factorio, Verilog, and TypeScript has to be less than 250,000 people on entire planet -- in the entire universe.

But the number of people who understand verilog, but not typescript (or at least javascript), is probably close to zero.

That seems unlikely. Plenty of electronics engineers working in Verilog, who haven’t ever glanced at Javascript.

Re: Show HN: Verilog2factorio

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Post by oldgradstudent »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #49
nickysielicki wrote: post #29

I did not expect this to be written in TypeScript. The intersection of people who really understand Factorio, Verilog, and TypeScript has to be less than 250,000 people on entire planet -- in the entire universe.

But the number of people who understand verilog, but not typescript (or at least javascript), is probably close to zero.

You haven't met a lot of electrical engineers.
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