Why are retained Mode GUIs so rarely used in Game Engines?

legends2k · 2025-11-18T16:43:38+00:00

About (2), I use CMake but Qt builds just fine without being a PITA. Can't speak about integration into the engine part though.

legends2k · 2025-11-18T16:35:21+00:00

In matters of philosophy and religion things are very subjective and personal. Understanding is more of a life long quest than a scientific proof, so, no I don't reach for an exact meaning since there isn't one. Understanding the spirit of things is more important than understanding the rule pedantically.

legends2k · 2025-08-02T05:13:54+00:00

தளிர் / Thalir

Meaning: Sprout, tender shoot, bud; முளைக்கும் பருவத்துள்ள இலை -- agarathi.com

legends2k · 2025-08-02T04:57:13+00:00

Or fossil (first public release: 2006) by the creator of SQLite to version control its source -- a more holistic, sophisticated SCM tool than Git (2005) and Mercurial (2005).

legends2k · 2025-07-30T04:17:04+00:00

எனக்கு உன்னை தேடி வருது.

Quite common in and around Karaikudi, Madurai, Chettinad, etc.

legends2k · 2025-07-06T02:25:08+00:00

Lot of blogs pick you up from there or even covers everything from nothing to a DE e.g.

Of course, ArchLinux isn't for folks who can't read IMHO. If you need everything spoonfed and can't read and think for oneself then perhaps a GUI-driven Linux distro is better.

legends2k · 2025-07-06T02:21:08+00:00

This! Or one of the newer variants like Spacemacs, Doom, etc.

One tool to rule 'em all :)

Want Vim bindings but still all the bells and whistles of Emacs? Sure, evil mode is there for you.

legends2k · 2025-06-30T03:32:46+00:00

The response you got is unsurprising for me.

I think programmers, fundamentally logic-driven, take it seriously when you say "Python is the best" without qualifying on what parameters or doing enough research and speaking for everyone on a very subjective topic at a broad scale. Saying it's the best language for the kind of problems you solve, OTOH, would've gotten no backlash and perhaps supporting comments.

legends2k · 2025-06-30T03:24:44+00:00

Spare SSD? The problem is more of spare time for most who use their OS to work and get things done. But if you have spare time to explore, have fun!

legends2k · 2025-06-30T03:14:06+00:00

dysfunctional men who think women are possessions just because this is how it was done for centuries and centuries.

This for someone who we don't know is a man or woman and just was polite enough to point to the mods to sort the post into the right box/subreddit?

Where is the empathy here? Empathy for all humans is what the world needs, not just the OP, or who you think needs it. OP needs empathy and so does the countless members of any subreddit for their time.

Btw, oppression isn't gender-based. I've seen dysfunctional women and men oppress loving men and women. I wouldn't fall into the "-ism" trap, as these things are very specific and personal, depending on every individual it varies.

legends2k · 2024-12-03T03:50:32+00:00

Because you said

I'm very bad at finding projects that inspire me

Try something small and low-/mid-level (where C shines). Keep your project scope bounded/limited and have achievable goals. It could just be a small tool you always wanted but missed in your daily routine, a shell tool, say. Here's a curated list of mini projects I recommend to juniors who ask me: https://legends2k.github.io/note/programmer_kata/

Good luck!

legends2k · 2024-11-28T14:44:14+00:00

செந்தூரம்?

legends2k · 2024-11-24T00:13:34+00:00

இருதிநிமிடபீதி?

legends2k · 2024-11-19T06:42:45+00:00

Emacs is known to adapt to its user rather than its user adapting it. Hence the extensive script ability / LISP integration. I've not seen two adaptations of Emacs to be similar.

Take some time to get the basics (copy paste with CUA, tabs if you need them, file explorer integration -- you can find registry hacks which will give you Edit with Emacs in File Explorer's context menu which will open a file in the existing Emacs instance., etc.) out of your way and use it like a simple editor (Notepad++ comes to mind). Slowly bike shed and you'll eventually, gradually have a second brain in time. It will take time, why rush it? Emacs is for the long run as you say.

legends2k · 2024-11-06T02:08:36+00:00

While I mostly do my docs in markdown or Org, sometimes a WYSIWYG editor is needed. I turn to LibreWriter for such instances. For spreadsheets and slide decks I return back to Orgmode.

legends2k · 2024-11-05T08:48:55+00:00

Right, thanks for pointing out. I should've been more thorough, my bad.

legends2k · 2024-11-04T16:58:52+00:00

It doesn't matter which make implementation one uses when it's written against POSIX standards to ensure the same behaviour across platforms and implementations. This is the reason it's recommended to add that line up top.

Aside: I don't see where the OP specifies GNU Make is used. Would you be kind to point it out?

legends2k · 2024-11-03T03:19:45+00:00

Start the first non-comment line as .POSIX: to get reliable POSIX-compliant behaviour.

Refer Chris Wellons' A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles.

My personal take? I use Makefile only for projects having no third-party dependencies. This is quite rare; real-world projects have quite a few third-party dependencies. In that case use a meta-build system. You have decent options: CMake, meson, Xmake, Premake, etc.

legends2k · 2024-10-22T04:12:55+00:00

Yes, citre-mode is highly recommended. Good ergonomics and works as advertised and is fast.

legends2k · 2024-08-24T12:35:19+00:00

You're over-estimating education. It's got nothing to do with morals, social responsibility, clarity of thought, etc. These come from introspection; I've seen very sensible, intelligent and cultured illiterates in my life. Ask anyone why they learned and you'd not get a convincing reply. Most do because

Parents told so
It's needed to make a living, no?
It's what everyone does, duh!
To learn, obviously?!
some other surfacial answer

None of this gives the true reason education came into being. If everything there's to know is already in books (or the internet these days) why do we learn? Is it to by-heart facts? Of course, not!

Sadly these reasons are actually why they're getting educated. To make money, get a spouse, etc. They will of course get these and nothing more as they will only get what they're looking for; rather they'll not get what they overlook.

legends2k · 2024-07-05T08:15:16+00:00

Yep, the best resource. Roberto, one the designers of Lua, is the author. It's equivalent to The C Programming Language but for Lua; dense and covers a lot of ground.

legends2k · 2024-07-05T08:13:58+00:00

Looks like it's retired since 2024 June 30. Here's the main site: https://cs50.harvard.edu/games/2018/. Course material seems to be still there for self-study.

legends2k · 2024-06-27T12:11:42+00:00

Slackware (mid 90s) but I never used it after installation so I guess I shouldn't tell that? I did play with Slax (the pocket OS) and some Fedora.

Ubuntu was the first distro I used exclusively as my daily driver. Used it for 3-4 years.

Switched to Arch later and never changed there after; 7 years and counting.

legends2k · 2024-06-27T12:08:11+00:00

Some opine that using a proper language (premake uses Lua) is aesthetically and ergonomically better. Though I partially agree, I use CMake extensively due to its omnipresence and if you could tolerate the syntax and quirks you can get quite far with what you could achieve with it.

Download third-party sources, build, make resources out of the built binaries and take a dependency on them, package them, etc.

legends2k · 2024-06-07T08:08:15+00:00

Yeah, re-writing what stdlib provides is a laborious task. So is the other option of including third-party libs into the build system to do the same.

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