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> usually significantly worse than vanilla JS Can to elaborate? This is can be true if you're interacting with browser API's such as the DOM frequently, because there's an overhead. But I've seen several projects wher
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by dgb23 3y ago
> It's also a ton of fun until you segfault 3 mins into gameplay and you have no idea why. But then you can only blame yourself! Raylib has a ton of language bindings. I've been using it with Zig, the integration was seamless a
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by dgb23 3y ago
I got my first job as a programmer because someone noticed that I’ve been making video games with LÖVE. A similar library would be raylib, that I’ve been using lately. These libraries are simple enough so you can keep everything in your hea
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by dgb23 3y ago
The video game market is a feast or famine kind of deal. Few games break even, even fewer make a profit. What Unity probably wants or needs is to take a cut off the large successes. That’s where all the money is. The problem is that they ar
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by dgb23 3y ago
You can agree to telemetry under GDPR as a consumer.
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By calling home. The implication here is that unity is malware.
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Retroactively in terms of previous installs or in terms of already published games?
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by dgb23 3y ago
This may seem weird for outsiders. But it’s one of the first things that come to mind if you know about that subset of entertainment consumer culture. The target of this kind of hostility is _usually_ mainstream media, but nobody is safe. I
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by dgb23 3y ago
You can appreciate the utility that unity provides without making false claims in the first paragraph. There are ofc many successful games that were not built on top of a third party engine. Including one of HN’s darlings Factorio for examp
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With such an incredibly popular product and rich ecosystem? I don’t understand…
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Many of my favorite games aren’t built on licensed engines.
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I think it’s possible to interface with other (any?) language.
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Isn't this a complex solution for a problem that shouldn't exist?
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You already got multiple answers explaining the performance issue. Now in many, typical applications you'd have to scale up quite significantly before this becomes a problem. But if your application requires you to store small, new ent
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by dgb23 3y ago
This claim is a bit too broad based on my limited understanding. Please correct me if I'm wrong: First, Rust is not actually a memory safe language. It makes writing memory safe code easy and nudges you towards writing "unsafe&quo
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by dgb23 3y ago
An issue that is not solved by either UUIDv4 or the proposed solution (random base58 strings) is indexing performance. Both of those solutions typically make it hard for a DB if you write new entries, assuming you have an index on the ID. I
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by dgb23 3y ago
I propose a new term "TDaaS": Tech Debt as a Service. (Feel free to modify the name to something less clunky.) A SaaS can provide a useful tradeoff. Just don't get scared by FUD marketing tactics, like "Why you shouldn&#
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by dgb23 3y ago
Companies try to set prices to either maximize their profit or to bully out competitors at a net loss. You can translate "the market can afford" to "customers are still paying".
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Every application developer or UI designer should be forced to sit next to a non-technical person for a couple of hours who uses a slow machine (partly because it's infested by programs and services that they absolutely don't need
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That just switches from one slow animation to another.
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My theory is that UI has the exact same problem as programming: We don't know what we're doing. - Corporate interests lead to enshitification and chasing after local maxima. - We never learn from the past, new blood comes in faste
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by dgb23 3y ago
Somewhat related: As someone who likes working on a single screen I typically like to open things in full-screen mode by default. MacOS plays a sluggish animation when switching between screens. You can't turn it off, you can just swit
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by dgb23 3y ago
We have terms and languages to express computational complexity, algorithms, temporal logic etc. But what about data logistics and CPU mechanics? How good are we at expressing things like memory fragmentation, cache locality, throughput and
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For reference: Julia is basically a Lisp under the hood. From playing around with it, it seems like the REPL experience is up there too.
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> I want to know if the function I'm calling is going to make a network request. That has nothing to do with function coloring. > Ideally I want to have the fundamental behavior of any function I call encoded in the function sign
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To me this kind of sounds like circular reasoning. Without function coloring there's no distinction that you need to know of. Can you elaborate?
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Because the term was coined by Alan Kay, who apparently later said he probably should have called it message oriented (paraphrasing). There's also a written conversation you can find online where he disqualifies pretty much all of the
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by dgb23 3y ago
> Realistically how much of a problem is this likely to be? It is a very young language with momentum and a foundation behind it. I'm not aware of any pre 1.0 stability guarantees. In fact it is generally recommended to use the nigh
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by dgb23 3y ago
If you’re one of these people who are oozing with sarcasm then just be yourself. It’s a fun way to convey when something actually is ridiculous. Nothing wrong with that. Just also make sure from time to time that you’re on the same side. Do
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by dgb23 3y ago
Is the rationale documented somewhere? I have a hard time to understand why this decision was made, especially in the face of prior art. To me it seems like a non-tradeoff.

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