Turfster

@Turfster

he/him

Coder, pun perpetrator
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser

Tools programmer
Writer-wannabe
Did translations once upon a time
I contain multitudes

(TurfsterNTE off Twitter)

Trans rights
Black lives matter

Be excellent to each other

UE4/5 Plugins on Itch

nte.itch.io/

Github

github.com/theturfster/

Turfster @Turfster9/20/2023, 9:47 PM

Apogees @apogeesys

izzy @bruxisma9/20/2023, 9:13 PM

oh haha, yeah, yaml. teehee norway means "false" until 1.2 haha.

You are outside giggling at the latest internet post about how YAML is bad because there are 5 different ways to parse booleans. Suddenly, the sky has darkened. You are robbed of speech. Your breath has quickened, and you are tearing at the burning pain in your chest that has suddenly swelled within you. You must be in hell.

#cmake #programming #boolean values #cursed code #shitchost #shitpost

Apogees @apogeesys9/20/2023, 9:46 PM

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@KevinOfComputer9/22/2023, 10:42 PM

What the actual fuck is wrong with cmake

izzy @bruxisma9/23/2023, 4:06 AM

it's stringly typed because the creators really liked Tcl in the 90s and Javascript was only 2 years old at that point
It was meant to replace autotools and autotools had multiple ways to express false because there were (at the time) about 10 or so different shells that were close to being posix but not quite so a boolean was just "whatever dude, idk"
Scons happened
When they implemented the first find_ set of functions they couldn't return booleans, so they used <name-of-variable-requested>-NOTFOUND.
Sometimes you just wanna to ask a user a question and get back a yes, a no, an on, an off, a y, an n, or an ignore :)))