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For me personally it is interesting to see that Notch seems to prefer Dart Editor (Built on the Eclipse platform) over something like Intellij IDEA or Webstorm ( https://www.dartlang.org/tools/webstorm/ ).
He doesn't seem to like it: "Argh! This editor pretty horrible" - Notch (Aug 25 2014 19:37 UTC)
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I'm watching now and it doesn't seem that bad, sure he switches tabs with the mouse but it seems like he is using quite a lot of keyboard shortcuts otherwise. I'd almost wager he has a plugin to emulate vim or emacs keybinds, seeing as he's moving the cursor forward by words and jumping around the code a lot without using the mouse at all.
By the powerful sound of the keystroke when moving words, I'd say he is using Ctrl+ . That is very common in Windows. BTW I'm not able to switch between OSX and Windows (home & work) efficiently - Windows' shortcuts are so much easier on my hands. Is there any way people make the two OSes more similar?
Btw, this is 2014 and I feel like we would already be able to play a simple game like Doom in the browser, just like the real thing. But no.. --edit-- ...multiplayer with several people, of course.
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is this really live? I mean -- hardly see him pause for thought or anything. Interesting to see he just uses plain 'ol Eclipse (Eclipse FTW!).
Yeah it's really live - he's done a lot of work on stuff similar to this so he's probably got a mental checklist of everything that needs to happen. He's pretty good at what he does: making games! Rarely is watching somebody write code entertaining, but he makes it so.
Btw, this is 2014 and I feel like we would already be able to play a simple game like Doom in the browser, just like the real thing. But no.. --edit-- ...multiplayer with several people, of course.
http://kripken.github.io/boon/inception/
The inner doom game is playable.
I'm so impressed watching Notch program in realtime. "Last Minute Christmas Chopping" was an eye opener for me. ( http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview... ). I was totally baffled when he started to draw the ascii character map pixel by pixel in an 48h competition, but the result was usable and actually quite simple. My takeaway is this: Doing something quick and dirty for a first draft and imp…
I like Dart because it supports what you've described really really well. Optional type annotations enable you to don't worry about types when you do rapid prototyping.
Once your understanding of a good solution solidifies you can sprinkle type annotations over function signatures and wherever it makes sense to get great tooling support and to fortify core parts of your code base :)
In a nutshell it enables project lifecycles many companies go through many times (something written in Ruby eventually might have to be rewritten in Java for performance and tooling/collaboration support) yet being able to stick to one language which removes a ton of complexity.
I'm so impressed watching Notch program in realtime. "Last Minute Christmas Chopping" was an eye opener for me. ( http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview... ). I was totally baffled when he started to draw the ascii character map pixel by pixel in an 48h competition, but the result was usable and actually quite simple. My takeaway is this: Doing something quick and dirty for a first draft and imp…
Yeah, he always does a good job of it. The rules allow you to use pre-created fonts now, I'm not sure they did when notch started to do LD48 though.