It sounds like you may be ready to Obey The Testing Goat

On the stable channel, it seems like (from comparing notes with friends) a recent update introduced crashes into older games that did not crash previously. In my case, Proton is always involved.

Yeah. If Valve releases a remotely viable desktop console OS, I’ll immediately build one for my living room. If for no other reason, to keep the rest of the family away from my SteamDeck.

As in if you live in a state with sales tax but down the road is a state without sales tax- why ever shop in your state?

Mostly the states are quite big, so it’s not worth the trouble. But along various state borders, it distorts the shopping experience in odd ways.

I’ve been to towns that are missing common retailers entirely, because everyone drives to the next town over (in another state), to avoid a tax.

We also have a rich history of driving across state lines to purchase stuff that’s illegal in our own state. It’s also illegal to bring it back, but the borders aren’t patrolled, so the only way to get caught is to have a traffic violation while doing it.

Or so I’ve heard. I never break any laws, myself.

Cool chart.

It really makes the point to me that the PS1 and PS2, when adjusted for inflation, and for relative compute power, were just such a fantastic deal.

I was recovering from some serious console-purchase fatigue, when I bought my PS1 to replace my garage sale purchased Super NES. It was a big deal to me.

I’ve paid PS5 prices (inflation adjusted) for a game system a few times (my first Switch and SteamDeck), but they’ve been a lot more mind blowing than what appears to be on offer today.

Disclaimer: My favorite game is 8-bit, anyway.

“Best friend I ever had… We still don’t talk, sometimes.”

I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

They did.

And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.

Yep.

And when high-level languages started appearing.

And yes.

That said, if you believed my mentors, we were barelling towards a 2025 in which nothing running on software ever really worked reliably.

So they may have been grumpy, but they were also right, on that point.

More frequent updates means more version mismatches and more trouble to modders and server hosters to have to constantly update.

Yep. As someone who hosts servers and writes mods, I’ve moved over to MineTest for exactly that reason.

Some other good answers already but here’s a sound byte version:

It’s currently expensive to borrow money, and then the borrowed money isn’t as useful as it used to be.

Ditto. I use Go for this kind of thing.

If YAML and JSON were gripping my hands for dear life, dangling off of a cliff…

I would let both drop into the abyss so I could spend more time with INI.

would Python really be better if it switched to braces?

Yes. A thousand times, yes.

That is amazing.

I don’t know what I just read.

If my website ever gets married, I’m going to invite this website to stand next to it as a bridesmaid - because it makes my website look pretty by comparison.

C# is only good as a scripting language in my usecase, and sometimes you want “hard-code” new features, not script them.

My recent experience with C# suggests you might have a much better time with it, than you think.

C#'s compile phases are nuanced and achieve surprisingly quick results, now.

If it’s been awhile since you used C#, you could be happily surprised.

Well said.

Here I am trying to wind people up and you’re responding with thoughtful nuanced consideration.

You make some great points.

I’ll add - for folks reading along - I do think a class is still almost always an anti-pattern, even with all the OOP class function and factory pattern stuff removed.

I also feel (as you referenced):

• Functions being forced to reside inside objects is just stupid.
• Factory patterns are horrible, because they mix config into program code, maximizing uncertainty when debugging

And also:

• Inheritance is almost always a worse idea than an interface.
• classes tend to have additional fancy tooling to make it easier to carry state data around - which is usually a bad idea

State data is a necessary evil in most programs.

I’ve found that most advanced class object implementations treat program state data more like a pet than a threat.

Sorry for the long response - I know you don’t need it - you know what kind of tool you’re looking for.

I figure they extra detail above might provide food for thought for folks reading along who are surprised there’s even contrasting opinions on classes.

(And I feel a little bad for not really posting anything very useful earlier in the thread.)

It amuses me that someone downvoted classes suck.

It’s an objectively true fact.

Today I learned GoLang has no class.

Neat! Thanks. Sincerely.

I’ve been coding casually in GoLang for years without noticing. (I don’t use classes, because classes suck.)

Apparently GoLang does at least have interfaces, which are like classes that don’t suck. That’s probably why I didn’t notice.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/class-and-object-in-golang/#

I look forward to the economics research paper that this will cause:

“A study of the effects of ‘Balatro’ on GDP”

Thanks! That is the thread I thought I replied to.

I’m gonna claim my Lemmy client got lost. Or maybe I just got lost in the context.

Idk why you are downvoted.

Calling unions “legacy institutions” is a dangerous take that could get some of our kids or grandkids killed in coal mines.

I’ll admit my kids aren’t perfect, but they deserve better than to be victims of the current blatant strategic communications agenda to turn their kids into wage slaves at age 8, so that Elon Musk can build an even bigger penis shaped rocket.