> ... TIS-100 was a bomb for me ... I started it, but never finished it. On the one hand, it is a vastly better debugging experience. You can see the entire s

> ... TIS-100 was a bomb for me ... I started it, but never finished it. On the one hand, it is a vastly better debugging experience. You can see the entire state of the machine, and easily step through the execution. In contrast, with my day job, I'm dealing with incomplete documentation, poorly designed and very large libraries without adequate comments or organization, subtle bugs that only occur in unidentified situations, etc. But at the end of the day, TIS-100 felt more like work or a hobby project, so I'd be better off doing one of those.