Alberto del Real

@valigo I really like Swift's interop with C/C++ as I can use Raylib or any C library directly from a modern language :)

The more I learn about C, the more I see how much of a lost opportunity C++ is. There's also an alternative reality where Rust is much more pleasant, because its only goal was to improve C safety instead of one-upping modern C++

@wookash_podcast You invited @awesomekling who uses modern C++. I'd like to see @migueldeicaza on the podcast as he can offer a total different vision of what we used to. He advocates stop using C/C++ pushing modern langs like Swift and to use the highest level language that solves the problem 🙂

Every now and then, comments like this appear under live coding sessions, and I don't know how to respond. My view on that matter is: - all highly skilled people I know are avoiding modern C++ - some use C, some use C++, but those who use C++, they take a tiny subset of features - like operator overloading, or destructors to have "cleanup" mechanics - none of those people use std::views, std::ranges, std::pair, or even std::unordered_map or std::vector. If they do, they know they make a concession, "I shouldn't do that, compile times and runtime will suffer, I'm doing this cause it's a prototype, not a *real* thing" What I conclude from these observations is: - modern C++ is more about fashion than any real gains - new, competing languages have features like "map, filter, reduce" or string slices and C++ committee generally wants to add features, not remove them - the implementation of these features in compilers (MSVC, Clang, gcc) is nasty, not because compiler engineers suck, quite contrary, but because those compilers need to care about decades of existing features, syntax expressions, and weird historical constructs - quick example, for everybody liking lambdas in other languages, will absolutely freak out trying to understand all the possibilities of capture monstrosity with const & reference & pointer and [=] and [*] and move semantics, and damn const reference to a smart pointer which will not update refcount, how far have we strayed from the path. So my stance is: - if I invite somebody who loves modern C++ we will talk about how cool things can be expressed, but it will come at the cost of build time and runtime. If you think this worldview lacks nuance, and should be explored more in depth - reach out or recommend a person who would be a good fit for such a discussion. We can make a live session geared towards exploring these topics, or organize a small debate (but avoiding drama, a civilized debate!)

Kazunori Endo

@matekdev @gabefollower how convenient s&box is in comparison with other game engines like Unity or Unreal?

@gabefollower If anyone has any questions feel free to ping me, I'm the lead programmer on this project!

Garry Newman shared that Facepunch finalised the licence agreement with Valve to release projects created on Source2 using S&Box as separate games on Steam, completely royalty-free. The first of these may be "My Summer Cottage", created by Small Fish.

@SebAaltonen do you think M5 Pro Max is worth it? (money wise)

New M5 MacBooks have super fast SSDs, while MacBook Neo SSD is half speed compared to cheap $500 Windows laptops. 8GB RAM + slow SSD is a bad combo. Neo is marketed for browser use, but M5 Air beats it silly when switching tabs for example. Ultra fast SSD + 16GB RAM matters.

@migueldeicaza No hombre no, vente a España!

/me googles 'rentals in paris'

@its_txbrown @k_katsumi There are some promising projects such as: github.com/velox-apps/vel… github.com/moreSwift/swif… github.com/OpenSwiftUIPro…

@its_txbrown @k_katsumi There are are some Swift wrappers, for example, for Dear Imgui but I don't think they take advantage of the benefits of the language as the library was not designed with that in mind. I'd like to see a full Swift library/framework that works across multiple platforms

Bare-metal Raspberry Pi Pico entirely in Swift, no C code at all. Vector table, boot2, startup code, runtime stubs, all written in Swift using @\section, @\_extern, and @\c. github.com/kishikawakatsu…

@wojtsterna Is this a trap to learn linear algebra to then build my own game engine in OpenGL to then throw it away to build my own game engine in Vulkan and get lost in Vulkan hell forever? 😄

My comprehensive 45-hour long video course on math for 3D/games programmers is out. If you want a hands-on approach to math BUT still want to understand what is going on under the hood, this might be for you. wojtsterna.com/math-for-3d-pr…

@LyleMakes @rfleury Dude I don't know what to tell you. I was asking about native GUI frameworks and you start talking about React which is the worst possible example

@RedSantar @rfleury

My wife just said, after using a website, “I think I’m turning into you. Every UI programmer needs to be rounded up.”

@LyleMakes @rfleury Yes, if the API is well designed. We are talking about native here, not webdev frameworks.

@RedSantar @rfleury And you think using a GUI framework is going let you understand what you're building? Here's a great exercise, if you ever get the time: create an extremely simple "hello world" react app. Then, set a break point and step through the code that react uses to render it.

@itheimperialist @rfleury who said the opposite?

@RedSantar @rfleury GUI framework doesn't automaticly make good UI/UX.

@LyleMakes @rfleury I don't like this vibe coding thing, specially for personal projects. I like to understand what I'm building. I think that the more you rely on AI tools, the greater the “knowledge debt” you get, and you end up with a mess that you don't know how to modify or optimize.

@RedSantar @rfleury Have AI do it for you, then.

@LyleMakes @rfleury For the same reason that if I want to make a game, I don't want to start by building a game engine. I just want to make the game.

@RedSantar @rfleury Why not make all the UI from scratch? For a small app, anyway. It would give you valuable experience you can use to better evaluate GUI frameworks.

@rfleury I've always wanted to make a digital logic simulator. I find something like ImHex (github.com/werwolv/imhex) approach very interesting. It was built with Dear Imgui as a standalone program.

@RedSantar Depends a lot on what you are trying to build

@f4micom claudIA

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@io_sammt Pretty cool tbh, have you thought about implementing it natively instead of as web tech?

I predicted this would happen 10 years ago, so I created: Unit, the 2D terminal. Now GUIs are back in the game and touching is the new typing.

If training commercial models on terabytes of copyrighted content is fine for these corpos, then pirating their actually useful drawing software is a moral obligation for the individuals. Don't play rigged games by their rules.