*gets halfway through post 6, goes on a mental rant about all the ever-thickening layers of obfuscation and complexity to do basic things*
*Reads last two sentences*
*Dies*
I mean, I get that computers don't work like human minds. "i get that playing sound, for example, is a complicated task that you don't get for cheap until someone wraps it in a simple interface. The fact that no one can do this without it almost immediately becoming outmoded and requiring rebuilding from scratch every couple years, and that doing so takes another couple of years, repeat ad infinitum, is a special kind of frustrating. And the dozen other dependencies one needs to get anything else working are just... arcane things one must track down, like the flippin' Triforce.
You know what programming needs? Something that does this dependency bullcrap automatically. Instead of downloading the one thing you need, only to be sent on half a dozen fetch quests to get its dependencies, installing the one should check for the others, and offer to automatically get them if they aren't already installed. Less time questing, more time creating.
Javascript, as a language, is easy. Javascript, as something to make games with, is like having to build a whole woodshop, when all you get for free is a mallet and a tape-measure. And also, you have to design your products to fit with certain other products, which disqualifies them from fitting with some other products, but only some of the time, and depending on what month of what year it is.
Gah I wish console development was something resembling affordable. You get 5 years of consistency, and largely generalizable tools that are easy to find. Shame about the outrageous licensing fees and inaccessible development environments. Also the fact that there are 2-3 competing consoles at any given time, and people still on old consoles, but at least it's less chaotic than web development, pre and post "W3c standards alike.
看過來!
"If you want utopia but reality gives you Lovecraft, you don't give up, you carve your utopia out of the corpses of dead gods."
MaxAngor wrote:
George... Don't do that.