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Thanks, I didn’t know about the expanded use of refs. As the other commenter pointed out, the version of C# used in Unity is out of date by a version or two, and so is my experience.
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Honestly, I don’t feel qualified to evaluate Rust. At face value, it seems like a good replacement for C++, but I’ve never successfully used it for anything larger than a toy. That’s probably mostly on me. My comment was referring to the im
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Oh, thank you for that. I’m really happy to hear there’s been movement on this front. Hopefully Unity will get there eventually - I suspect their own solutions to some of these problems might be holding back adoption of more recent .Net ver
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Unity has been using C# for low-level code for years, and they have even gone as far as compile C# code into shaders. It's surprisingly flexible, and unsafe low-level code composes well with high-level code quite well. You can really t
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I think not letting you encode relational, functional and domain-specific higher level thinking is by design. I review a lot of code, and have been programming for 20 years. I think most programmers go through a phase, after 2-5 years of ex
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Somewhat related, the relativistic rocket equation itself is pretty fascinating. I've written some code that lets one play around with it: https://github.com/the80srobot/gorocket It's only when you try simula
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Ursula Le Guin's Hainish Cycle explores how an interstellar society would function if people could travel this way: an instant for the traveler, but decades back home. Despite glossing over all the technobabble that other scifi finds s
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Are you suggesting that if you post a performance benchmark about a commercial database that you’ll get threatened with legal action? Do you have anything to back that up? It sounds far fetched, and a cursory search finds many such benchmar