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  • Terraria has all the ingredients of a great game:

    • passionate developers
    • great progression
    • great gameplay
    • great bosses
    • the sense of discovery and excitement is profound and enthralling
    • you dont need a good PC to run it

    Every game tries to be the next big thing but they all seem to fail to understand that what made games like Minecraft so great was their portability/runnability !

    Star Citizen is a prime example of that: tries so hard to be great, 99% of people can’t run it. It doesn’t matter. On the other hands: Terraria is a complete experience that has been gradually extended/improved/optimized and can run on almost any PC.

    I’m looking for contradiction because I see no evidence of my take being wrong. That’s also how League of Legends got so big: you could install it on high school PC lol








  • I’m going to code in Python for my job soon, do you have links on how TF I should manage dependencies? I can’t stand the bloat of virtual environments or Anaconda sorry.

    I need to make myself a stack python but I don’t want to look at this madness. At least Typescript benefits from a high quality ecosystem of frontend tooling with Vite/React/ESLint/ESBuild and it’s getting even better with the new runtimes features :)

    I need to learn about:

    • built-in tools provided by the language (practice on the job and the power of Google & LLMs will help)
    • ecosystem
    • good practices

    Why is their a build system for an interpreted language ? Do you have bundling concerns like in JS or you somehow compile Python code now?


  • That would be quite an amazing era to live in ahaha ! We can the start the work as a community to match the JavaScript Ecosystem by providing high quality primitives for developers. For that to happen developer UX has to improve though :) but I think WASM definitely has some future.

    However to contrast my previous thoughts, I find it pretty sad that people want to move away from JS when we got thing like Bun & Demo 2.0 hitting their prime!

    We got benchmarks, cross-runtime stdlib, better registeries, type safety, enough performance, extendability (with runtime plugins & API). I think were approchaing a TS/JS paradigm that’s pretty impressive I must admit.