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  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafetoProgramming@programming.dev•What's your experience with Nim?English
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    11 days ago

    I dunno, do you think it’s too rough for prototypes or jam-like games?

    Seems to me like many of the issues are likely specific, workaround-able stuff. It’s mainly developed by 1 person, so pretty much any type of involvement (even posting issues or showing off projects) could help improve the future of the project.

    In some cases you can keep your logic in its own file and not dependent on any engine. For instance I made a (non-game) software demo (number converter) for the 3.X bindings and then easily redid the GUI and rewired it for the 4.X bindings. (similarly I made a polygon-from-text-format parser for Naylib, I could transfer it but Godot has polygon editing so less need there)

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafetoProgramming@programming.dev•What's your experience with Nim?English
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    12 days ago

    I haven’t done enough to consider myself a programmer, but I could’ve written your post. It hits a niche that I have long wanted from programming.

    You should check out the Godot 4 bindings if you haven’t already (gdext-nim, see my post on !nim@programming.dev). There’s also one for Raylib (specifically, Naylib).

    My biggest functional gripe (that I can say for certain is not just me) was that support for (Bellard’s) TCC was dropped. It was nice for quick prototyping, though Clang is a pretty efficient middleground/default.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafetoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Fellow programmers...English
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    2 months ago

    EDIT: On second look I’m guessing the description was more of a rhetorical (which would make more sense if it were read before the image). So all I can say is

    <me pretending I have a project>: haha same

    original

    I have all of the free time but feel terrible most of the time, so everything really. When I actually do sit down to actually try something,

    it:

    a. goes nowhere (failed attempt or no idea on how to start)

    b. works, but has some blocking issue (or otherwise is not as viable as I hoped)

    c. is… fine, but not quite smooth for me

    d. does not seem to exist as I expect, slowing my workflow

    e. is actually viable, but clunky (Godot’s gridmap, unless manual config)

    Not that I really have ideas, more of annoyances with common game mechanics (or that lots of new stuff is bloated from textures/video/non-compressed audio etc.) really.

    For a couple of things I have made (both text-file formats+loaders), one of them I had no desire to do the writing to utilize (adventure book, for a toolkit… also font scaling wasn’t as good I wanted) and the other (2D polygons, Raylib bindings) I was a bit unsure on usage (fans vs strips, loading multiple) and couldn’t be bothered to develop to a usable state (GUI editor etc).

    Some of it I know I just need to start with something simpler (I am already leaning towards this with 2D or 3D polygons) and get anything started*, but I don’t seem to be there yet. Maybe something will change…

    * still difficult having an idea that is both viable and engaging for me, and even the simplest 3D I’d still need to put a bit more prep-work in (Blender template file, importer script for materials and better node view, checking Godot color palette options to see if one allows keeping my x5 ramp width) unless I just don’t do that and ignore/manually do some of those (material overrides on import aren’t difficult for example, particularly when I won’t have many materials anyway)

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafetoLinux@programming.dev•Any Good Music Player with Sleep Timer feature?English
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    5 months ago

    alarm-clock-applet allows custom commands. So put systemctl suspend into a timer, bingo.

    rtcwake to wake the computer up, for-better-or-worse the music will still be playing.

    Someone else mentioned android, VLC there does have a sleep timer (just to stop the music) I didn’t see an equivalent option in the desktop version (at a quick glance) though.

    In SMPlayer I do see the option ‘shut down computer’ as a sub-option for `close when finished playback’ (general options)

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafetoProgramming@programming.dev•Regarding ! coding_enthusiasts@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    You know, I’m somewhat of a coding enthusiast myself.

    Difficult to think of projects that I want to do that are also viable for me now. I settled on Minesweeper (/a dragonsweeper-like) though I lost momentum as I got a bit hung up on how to implement it in a way that’d allow dynamic map sizes. I suppose I should just make it as simple as I can and then differentiate it later.

    Mostly been ignoring it though, instead making efforts to organize my room. Any personal growth is good, right?

    I would also like an excuse to make some polygonal art (2D or 3D) but I don’t have many ideas there either, and many ideas of which would probably be an insignificant amount of actual coding compared to animation.