mrhands

Sexy game(s) maker

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I do UI programming for AAA games and I have opinions about adult games


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every time I try to learn about current web development practices and tools I feel like what normal people must feel like when they hear about normal software development. deeply humbling stuff. actually we don't use package stuff directly anymore we use groop to handle that. you just have to tell it to compile from javaxxxcript. it's really easy you can just configure your groop instance with ben from the command line. make sure to install ferret.js too, it's really important and the web page for it just looks exactly like every other web development tool with the same list of sponsors and vague console one-liner examples but trust me dude just trust me. actually instead of invoking npm directly you should use npr to serve as a package manager for your package manager for your package manager for your package manager for your package manager for your


mrhands
@mrhands

In this Web Year of React+11, I recommend Svelte for all your JS website-making needs. I've used it to make a playable prototype for my adult card game. and that was cool and fun.

You may have some questions, like:

  • How does it work?
  • Why does it install a bazillion packages?
  • No, seriously, what do you mean you just write let name = "Hello World!" and it gets picked up?

And the Svelte Guarantee™ is "Don't Worry About It; It's Probably Fine!"


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in reply to @love's post:

I like svelte in principle (compile away all the bloat!) but I have failed multiple times to get a hello world working with it. and it has so many mannerisms that I don't understand the reasoning for, that people just seem to roll with??? I don't fucking get it.

I work with multiple React apps at work and they were all made before I got there; I still do not comprehend how to start one from scratch. I think it's something to do with nodes of yarn?

I unironically see web devs promoting AI for programming because of how much annoying and impossible to remember setup is involved in doing simple web development tasks. And it's like, I have never seen such a twisted mess of unnecessary complexity to do things worse and slower. You don't need more software and complexity you need less!!!

Web dev/backend programmer/I guess that's fullstack?/whatever here, I remember doing some conditional logic and Visual Studio prompted me with a suggestion to "simplify" my if statement. The suggestion was a while loop with a conditional that caused a compile error. I don't trust AI to correctly write my import statements.

I work with NodeJS and the cavalcade of related frontend/backend components and it is absolutely the worst experience I've ever had programming and I constantly think about changing jobs to escape this tech stack.

Also TypeScript is like so indicative of how JavaScript would handle a type system. Bolted on and weighed down with so much configuration and additional dependencies to get everything playing nicely. There's no chance I wouldn't use it over regular JavaScript but it's horrendous.

yeah, typescript is a horror show, but it's still not as bad as what awaits down in the dark and terrible ocean of vanilla JS

it's like, do you want to use the mechanical contraption that almost killed Dr Venture or just hold your breath and hope for the best