NostraDavid

Haskell:

https://learnyouahaskell.com/introduction

It’s been a while since writing some (2018), but the concepts you learn from Haskell are great (though I still can’t explain Monads, even if my life depended on it) and can be applied in other languages.

Anyway, I can’t speak to BEAM, but Haskell is very typeful, it teaches you currying, very great language, awful tooling (but that was ~10 years ago, so I hope things have improved since).

Aaah, PHP. I’ll stick with GoHugo, but it’s good to know alternatives!

I tried Thunderbird. Didn’t like it, at all. Evolution is much more my jam.

Structlog actually bit me like this! Had a dict that I manipulated:

edit: goeie shit, Bas! Leer je de studenten wel debuggen en unit testing? Dat was echt gemis toen ik klaar was bij de HU, en vooral unit testen zou veel hebben geholpen tijdens het maken van mijn code.

Does this thing work?

Expected git, got multiple programming languages. Nice.

How are the dataframe libraries on Ruby?

No colours? But how am I going to look down on the other three quadrants?

But for real, how did you make it? Hold up, did you screenshot draw.io? You absolute madlad!

If it’s a Type-A, add a little Type-A to Type-C converter in the bag as well. Just in case.

SSD would be 100% dead unless you buried it with a power source.

Huh? Why? Should SSDs not be able to contain data without power?

Downvoted. Go make a stink about this on Reddit.

edit: making a stink towards a bunch of journalists is fine too.

So a random mod speaks for Reddit? What kind of BS is this post

As long as Reddit allows this mod to continue his job, they implicitly support his cause. It’s why they had to ban all the subreddits that were being creepy.

edit: Time for OP to make a stink on Reddit about it. Not sure why they’re posting it here. It doesn’t concern me, IMO.

Disposability Theory continues to haunt me.

VAIgans.

Alan Turing, I bet

If it wasn’t several PB (yes, petabytes) of data I’d want a backup.

Nee hoor, dat doen wij helemaal niet!

they can’t fathom going to a woman for honest advice.

Honest advice may not be good advice. I could tell a person “go kill yourself”, and be VERY honest about it. Yet it’s not good advice, now is it?

Start with pen and paper - no computer, because that’ll just distract you.

Write down what kind of game you want to make. Sketch out what you want your player to see when they play the game (top down, third person, first person; which UI elements should they see? Health? Mana or power bars? Selected items?). Does it have a story of sorts? What kind of setting (future, past, fantasy, sci-fi). 2D or 3D? What kind of visual style are you going for (realistic, cartoony, abstract?).

This will be your Game Design Document. You don’t have to get it perfectly at the first go - iterate over it, scratch things that you feel won’t work.

Once you have something that looks like a minimally viable product (MVP), THEN you can start making something in Godot, Game Maker, or Love2D. Because now you have something to follow along. Try to get something out ASAP, because feedback from people who are not you is important. Maybe you made something that feels fun to you, but no one else likes it - you would want to know that as soon as possible, not after toiling away for 5 years.

Do not start caring about “what is the fastest programming language”. Even the slowest of languages are fine, because you’re learning how to build a game, not how to program like a pro.

Pretty sure .compact also still works.

Slap .compact after a URL and you’ll see a mobile version of reddit from like 2006.

edit: THEY REMOVED IT! D: RIP .compact - I’ve visited you about 5 times, ever.