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Doom on Playdate
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Re: Doom on Playdate
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you seen the Playdate IRL? Its screen is very nice.
The screen is amazing. Backlight would be nice but the screen itself is great.
Backlight is not possible on this type of display. Frontlit screens exist, but are substantially thicker and require a new front plate.
Re: Doom on Playdate
#43"... complaining about some missing references in libc. After spending two evenings ..." This is such a chronic problem with compiling any existing C or C++ code. I'm paranoid about touching any new 3rd party software in those languages because of the inevitable frustrating fragility of it all.
I do not understand your complaint. Any program, regardless of the language in which it had been written can be problematic to use when it depends on external libraries that you do not have. Python programs are many orders of magnitude more fragile than C/C++ programs, because I have seen plenty of such programs that require a certain Python 3.x version and they refuse to run with Python 3.(x-1) or 3.(x+1), making it…
Not saying Python's any better. Though how do you make a Python program work on 3.x but not 3.x+1? I thought they had ended backward-incompatibility with the 2 to 3 update?
My experience with C/C+=/Fortran problems is not just versions of dependencies but version of compilers, platforms (they're non very portable), and mostly the extreme unhelpfulness of the error messages. It's always some undefined symbol that seems like it should be fine but turns out you're supposed to use all sorts of special command line parameters on the compiler and linker to make it work just right.