One of my goals for #mollytime is to avoid introducing a concept of errors into the language.
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@rygorous @aeva which is at odds with the design goal of decreasing the levenshtein distance to making a meaningful change to the program.
i guess it boils down to: what's the worst harm a typo can do in your language?
funny then to consider the shell which has no types and permits casual mistakes of devastating proportions.
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@JamesWidman @lritter @rygorous that'll definitely save me from accidentally transposing the source and destination paths on various commands to exciting effect
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@JamesWidman @lritter @rygorous that'll definitely save me from accidentally transposing the source and destination paths on various commands to exciting effect
@aeva @JamesWidman @lritter see, if this was typesafe with proper constructors that could not happen:
cp(ThisIsTheSourcePath("foo"), ThisIsTheDestinationPath("bar"));
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@lritter I do like C++ for being something that strikes an ok-ish balance between making me stop and think, and letting me iterate quickly.
@aeva @lritter I actually like GDscript's typing for the same reason. I like having static typing so I get editor hints and can make sure I don't mess something up. But I can also tell it to just not do that and it's cool with that.
As opposed to python where you can set your string to 3 and the solution is just to make sure you don't do that.
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@aeva @lritter I actually like GDscript's typing for the same reason. I like having static typing so I get editor hints and can make sure I don't mess something up. But I can also tell it to just not do that and it's cool with that.
As opposed to python where you can set your string to 3 and the solution is just to make sure you don't do that.
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@dwarf right??
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@ruby0x1 anyways, tldr my answer is normal human social mirroring behavior and immediacy
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@ruby0x1 however I'm not in a position of evaluating such purchasing decisions at the moment, so that case is kind of academic
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@ruby0x1 another case where I might consider trying a game engine is as a product evaluation for a for profit project where the tradeoff of having to pay royalties incurs some benefit to the production, such as shipping a game instead of reinventing the universe. In that position, I imagine the attractive points are going to be things like cost of training, availability of paid 1st and 3rd party support, showcase examples of other successful games, and other such things.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua praticamente gli idranti della polizia
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@ruby0x1 however, that is orthogonal to me simply trying an engine.
Similarly, I've "tried" unreal engine, because my work continues to pay me lots of money to work on unreal games, which in a way is another form of peer pressure. I've considered giving it a try for some small personal projects on the theory that it might be beneficial to broaden my holistic knowledge of the engine beyond what my day to day work calls for, but so far I've decided that my work/life separation is more important.
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@ruby0x1 I also tend to shy away from things where there is the appearance of a major time investment developing a set of skills that I would have to pay rent on. So for example, I learned Blender geometry nodes instead of learning Houdini despite being under the impression that Houdini is probably the superior procgen tool. Like wise I've spent the better part of year reinventing audio from first principles instead of buying Reaper or whatever.
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@ruby0x1 in the absence of being accidentally embedded in an enthusiastic community, I tend to be very sparing about taking up new tools at all, and tend to limit myself to tools that are available under permissive open source licenses if the tool does something I'm convinced I would not enjoy implementing myself (eg I'm gonna probably use kissfft instead of implementing my own fft, whenever I next have a problem that is best solved with an fft)
