I use Krita for infrequent no-stakes photo editing (and even pixel art at one point), might not be for everyone but there’s a lot of overlap. Also you can use G’MIC with Krita, so that might help.
I used to use GIMP, but I prefer Krita now.
I am not a programmer, but on 2 occasions I was able to improperly fix (1 argument in 1 line stuff) very small bugs without really understanding how. I’ve also made a number converter (dec-bin-hex) at least twice. I know those aren’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice twice.
I’d say there’s an issue here with language design having major tradeoffs, but maybe it’s just a paradox*? Though I have found a language I like (even though I’m not learning it because other issues), so I know it’s not impossible at least.
*= Like the people who could make something with less tradeoffs don’t have the need/desire to do that, they just use the existing stuff. Though that is much more fitting for visual programming.
It’s something like that, but way beyond me so I couldn’t get something manually let-alone full bindings. I was making a polygon loader+text format for Raylib and didn’t even finish that somewhat due to it not being straightforward to properly implement/use (beyond what I had already that is, and that I’d probably need to make an editor too). And a big reason for wanting Godot is to create and animate polygons in-engine eye example with an editor so yeah I’d rather wait.
The truth about programming is that the language isn’t really that important
I have had the thought that many languages have bindings for Raylib, so that lowers the bar a lot.
Beyond that, I can see a lot of problems. I already could use Raylib and a few other types of frameworks/libraries (UI, webui, TUI, fantasy console, scripting, microcontroller stuff) potentially, so any other language has to allow more/better options than that. Particularly as I don’t really have ideas for those (with few-or-no tools) right now to start there.
Alternatively, it’s a dirty language, but PHP is supremely usable.
For your consideration, a moment of Master Shake to represent me (alternate 1, alternate 2)
Right off the bat no Godot 4 bindings at least that I’m seeing in search, so that problem persists.
I’m not quite sure on style but I want a jack-of-all-trades language (speed, ease, capability, options, platform options etc) and that’s a high bar. Nim seems like an outlier from everything I can see.
Actually no, some of the Haskell syntax stuff I’m seeing it making me mad.
I’m like that because:
*=Nim
If it served no purpose then it wouldn’t be done. Companies don’t throw resources around for no reason
I’m guessing the point is that it’s diminishing returns and maybe a solution looking for a problem. Like how companies often spend a bunch of money/resources on special effects just for the spectacle of it. Just because they spent all that money doesn’t mean it is worthy of doing so in the first place.
Their point on sales is similar, it’s not that they’re selling something but that they’re selling something that people don’t need. Like fast fashion, it’s manipulation and the only purpose is money. You can look good without following a trend, and looking good (or status) should not be the only point of purchasing something anyway.
SERENITY NOW!
Yes, I do believe it is a (default) plugin. It allows compiling code via custom commands, I don’t know about “just” a text editor as I’m pretty sure Kate handles a bunch of other code stuff like indentations and code folding etc.
If you don’t use Kate as a code editor (assuming you use one at all), is there something else lightweight that you’d recommend?
For Kate, any idea why build targets are disappearing for me randomly after a while? This has happened twice for me, oddly nothing else seems to be lost. (on Linux, also it may have been fixed since I last updated but I can’t find any info, though I think I did update it after the first time I had this happen)
That’s cool anyway, I never tried any “low level” graphics, so it looks rather magic to me
I wouldn’t say what I’ve done is low-level (especially with <20 lines of code and not OpenGL-level stuff), and Nim offers functions that makes stuff easier. Certainly you can do low-level stuff with Nim, but I’m interested in it because I don’t think I could do C/C++ stuff (at least not how it normally looks) but I still want performance/flexibility.
I wish for Godot to keep growing, maybe then bindings for niche languages will be improved as well
There are actually production-ready Nim bindings for 3.X, but 4.X uses a different system (supposedly better for integration of compiled languages) and the makers of the old bindings didn’t want to do a new effort. Multiple individuals are/were working on it, but 4.0 was released a while ago. And understandably it’s a complex thing.
3.X vs 4.X is a big enough jump for me that it doesn’t really make sense to just use 3.X.
Unfortunately I also disappoint in that way as well. I haven’t done much (nothing game-like) and need help myself. I’m not even sure if I want Raylib or if something like SFML or SDL (or some other Linux-friendly framework) would be better for polygon features.
The relevant code here actually doesn’t really depend on Raylib at all (aside from producing the actual polygon itself), it just reads a file and creates a sequence of Vector2 values. Also, it’s in Nim-lang, but here’s a screenshot of (most of) the code if interested. (also a while before this I’ve also made a similar thing that loads basic game-book pages (story, button names, button descriptions, buttons open linked page) aka CYOA, though I couldn’t really create actual content for it to test/develop it further)
Also I’d probably be trying to use Godot 4 if the Nim-lang bindings were there, particularly because polygons (see this animated eye made in Godot 4, or this meme frame made in Godot 3).
I think this would count, a polygonal heart made via a custom text format and loaded into Raylib. I’m a shut-in though, so I don’t know.
(link for non-Kbin) Is this rizz?
I could see it being a real thing. When you’re making a game it gives you visualization for animations (both physics and visual-only) and shaders (maybe even a simplified stylized version). Random benchmark results/debug info. Drawing attention to syntax mistakes. An important email or video call pops up.
It would be cool and potentially useful, but completely un-asked for and likely distracting and a waste of space. Basically what if your computer was a non-cartoon clippy.
Nice, haven’t seen much Nim on the Fediverse. EDIT: There is !nim but that doesn’t seem to easily pop up in search (or at all?) and I am not seeing all of the posts via Kbin.
Still a lurker with it (done a few things, not much), really want some good graphical options (particularly ones that have an actual editor too, for ease/speed with simple stuff starting out) for projects.
Was somewhat interested in trying Raylib bindings, though waiting for Nim 2.0 was one reason I didn’t try Naylib at that time.
(I’m more interested in polygons especially for 2D, so that makes things a bit more difficult. Godot 4 would be really nice but GDextension kinda threw a wrench into that)
For GUI-only (not games etc), I did try and like Owlkettle. Some things bothered me or lowered viability for what I wanted (and I may prefer Qt), but the bigger issue is that I don’t really have many GUI-only ideas. I made a simple adventure book AKA CYOA reader (read a file line-by-line, story and buttons/descriptions/page target file defined), but didn’t actually plan on writing one.
Similar happened with an article for self-promotion on Imgur, and honestly I’m almost not sure why people found it acceptable for there to be accounts dedicated to selling and hyping. Even stuff that looks very formulaic or is like $300+, plus deleting+reposting if their post isn’t successful and other questionable stuff like that.
Etsy aside, there even were (well, still I guess) successful multi-million dollar game publishers that had multiple accounts pushing crowd-funding and early-access games (and I’m pretty sure the actual devs were burned by publishers, particularly if they were encouraged/coerced to handle their own online marketing).
In either case it seemed way too oversaturated, I gotta imagine much of them weren’t actually successful.
KiB, MiB, GiB etc are more clear. It makes a big difference especially 1TB vs 1TiB.
The American way would probably be still using the units you listed but still meaning 1024, just to be confusing.
Either that or maybe something that uses physical measurement of a hard-drive (or CD?) using length. Like that new game is 24.0854 inches of data (maybe it could be 1.467 miles of CD?).