optionalparens

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by optionalparens 8y ago
Is there a reason this guy keeps posting about Rust, especially on articles about other programming languages (ex: also a recent Elixir post)? Overall across posts, I sometimes agree with this guy, but it's getting really obnoxious tha
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by optionalparens 10y ago
I agree as well. Most of my fastest, "best" code is awful to look at because it has to be. It's full of crazy comments and hacks that were necessary for the hardware, language, and time usually. I think as processing power ha
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Yes, very true, obviously I just mean conceptually poking around. In many ways we definitely have it better now. I am infinitely more productive today. Simultaneously have gone further from teaching the low-level stuff properly. I spent hou
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Fair enough. Definitely there need to be better resources for getting started in 3D programming, particularly in C/C++, but the barriers to entry are also related to what makes things powerful at a AAA level. In some ways, just grabbin
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by optionalparens 10y ago
> you would have to have really compelling reasons to start with C++ and not JavaScript and WebGL. And that's coming from someone who actually likes C++ and used to write it professionally. As someone working in game programming a l
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Now mostly retired, but I've been doing game dev for a couple of decades. I would say based on my career and that of my peers, it is more correct to say C or even assembler is the traditional graphics programming language with regard t
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Oh didn't think you had anything against Clojurescript, just maybe pro-old school PHP ways or something. I've been a bit spoiled by ClojureScript and I can't imagine using much else as far as js tooling. I'm less familia
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by optionalparens 10y ago
I don't understand what you are getting at here, can you explain more? How is an interpreted language turned into something compiled? It sounds more like you have an issue with heavy weight frameworks, which I can agree with, but I am
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by optionalparens 10y ago
> It's a useful model, but I've found that it can break down a bit on really large, complex apps. If a piece of state is being passed to multiple places via props (either manually or using something like Redux), it can be diffi
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Again, you're welcome to disagree. We're talking about game development in particular, not Lua in general. I've used Lua and almost always look to it for scripting in game engines I have built. It's telling that all the
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by optionalparens 10y ago
I started a prototype project first to try it out and used Datomic. With Datomic, most things are entierly automatic. In the second, I'm using a bit of Datomic mainly to save UI-related and small bits of user state. Mainly I use Cassan
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by optionalparens 10y ago
I have used reframe to great success, as well as vanilla reagent. I've currently switched to om-next for a variety of reasons. I have my concerns about om-next, but overall since I'm writing a complex side-project, it's worth
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Much more productive after the initial learning curve as some said. It's pretty easy to call standard js from Clojurescript which makes things play well. I find having the syntax, tools, and power of Clojure to be a much better experie
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Again, childish downvoting by someone here. The term component here would be incorrect, rather "system" would be a better term. There are many variations and approaches to what I am talking about so I'll stick to one very com
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Please re-read what I wrote. I said 1 or more of these items, not all of these items. Additionally, please read my reply elsewhere in this thread about speed in dialog engines where I listed out why, where, and when speed does indeed matter
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Not sure what your point is here, could you elaborate? It seems to me maybe you are missing the point. As I said, this is about programming games, primarily in C/C++ or a related language (though applies mostly to others), not programm
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by optionalparens 10y ago
No, this couldn't be further from the truth and is the reason why things like entity component systems exist - to graft data on to code and make data-driven programming easier. In Lisp-like languages, this is more true. In C++ which mo
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Speed is not always a secondary concern for dialog. Certainly in many games where the dialog is very fixed, sure. However more and more, dialog systems actually need to be pretty fast. The simplest reason is you generally have only a few or
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Agreed. I've seen things like this tried in Smalltalk images and it was usually a disaster long-term, meaning that the state was simply thrown out and a new image spun up because you're SOL. Either that, or you need tons of logic
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by optionalparens 10y ago
I can see how it might be fun to do something like this for a blog post or simple project, but in a real game this just doesn't work for many reasons, most listed here already. There are tons of ways of doing dialog system. Mostly it c
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by optionalparens 10y ago
I don't blame you or think you are paranoid. I don't know as much as I like, but for various reasons ranging from family to work to my childhood, I've seen a fair amount of "stuff" in the world that at the very leas
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Yup, plenty of others examples. There's also more sort of "gray" examples of things like streaming sites that just "index" the streams that are on various servers and file sharing sites like openload. It's alwa
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Probably not, but IANAL. In the world of big companies and even governments coming after you, it becomes hard to claim innocence when conspiracy charges are levied. Using things that enable further proliferation tend to add to the charges a
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by optionalparens 10y ago
There are peer-to-peer sharing options that have tried to do this (now and previously), but aren't widely adopted in the face of bit torrent. Most private trackers are using the same pretty dismal PHP bit torrent tracker libraries&#x2F
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by optionalparens 10y ago
I definitely disagree with you on Facebook being bad and there not being a practical component, however I'm willing to see what you are saying. There's a lot that can go wrong, but like you imply, it's mostly perspective. Sur
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Some day I'll need to reclassify all my cyberpunk books as non-fiction it seems. We are nearly at the point of having real-life equivalents of things like information brokers and a Central Intelligence Corporation. The funny thing is t
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by optionalparens 10y ago
I'm not trying to agree or disagree with you here (for the record, I despise Facebook and anyone who works there), rather I want to point out that ethics often has no correlation with law. The difficulty in making ethical determination
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by optionalparens 10y ago
Not sure what you are replying to, but I think at least parent is saying because people aren't as good as they should be, you put processes in place. I don't think anyone is saying what you stated. Most companies might believe the
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by optionalparens 10y ago
This attitude strikes me as very SV/HN and while I can appreciate certain elements here, the answer is the typical one - "It depends." Rather than regurgitate what most people here already said, let me list a few programming
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by optionalparens 10y ago
I generally agree with this and most of the time it's hard to justify using a red-black tree if you care about performance. You can use one if you have other concerns perhaps or performance isn't one of them. I also concur cache m

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