throwawaymylife

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by throwawaymylife 11y ago
I agree. With embedded "scripting" languages, you have to differentiate between two kinds of users that don't always (or even usually) overlap: the people writing the scripts (who may or may not even consider themselves to be
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by throwawaymylife 11y ago
Squirrel is roughly similar (in the grand scheme of things) to Lua and JavaScript, with more of a (C++-style) OO flavor. Its main selling point is that it uses reference counting instead of a tracing garbage collector for automatic memory m
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by throwawaymylife 11y ago
Seems to be this (Quake 2, not 3, and still in development): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDXSMgW-r5M&index=1&list=PLN...
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by throwawaymylife 11y ago
I do think your logic holds for many combinations of users and infrequently-used applications. If your "brain loop" works like: press a button, then wait to see the result and completely mentally parse the screen before pressing a
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by throwawaymylife 11y ago
"Neo 80s" has been a popular aesthetic for the past few years, so I wouldn't fault Microsoft too much for using bright neon colors.
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by throwawaymylife 11y ago
Yes, this would be much better than the status quo, and hopefully technologies like "gsync" will bring something like it to us soon. But this approach will still result in microstutter from frames being displayed at somewhat rando
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by throwawaymylife 11y ago
Three comments: This approach can still cause perceptible latency if the user tries to input something while the GC you were trying to hide is ongoing. For really intense graphical applications, like games, there is never a resting peri