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You touch on something that for me is the real issue: there is only one level of complexity today: maximum. Building a blog, a news website, a niche web app, o
by tarsinge 6y ago
You touch on something that for me is the real issue: there is only one level of complexity today: maximum.
Building a blog, a news website, a niche web app, or the new Facebook, it nearly doesn't matter, you must use the latest state of art tools. We have completely lost all the intermediate levels between beginner and professional.
Sometimes it's justified as an unfortunate effect of the internet for sites and apps handling personal and sensitive data, something that the semi-professional 90's shareware didn't have to deal with. But I feel like that doesn't explain it all.
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoWell there's always PICO-8. https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
- tombert 6y agoPico-8 is a lot of fun, I made a ray-casting FPS thing in there a few years ago. That said, Pico-8 is (purposefully) limited pretty substantially. You can only have like 32kb of RAM, you are really limited in your sprite size, and I think the built-in editor is kind of annoying. Flash was fun because it was super easy to get into, but it kind of felt like a "big kid" programming environment. While I know the performance wasn't great, outside of that I never felt limited by Flash.
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoPICO-8 has 2 MB of Lua RAM (every Lua variable is 64 bits minimum so that's not a huge lot to play with). If the limitations feel too restricting, there's always TIC-80. https://tic80.com/ https://tic80.com/