But 1970s cultures DID have beginner languages, even then. That's where BASIC and LOGO came from, and HyperCard in the 80s, etc. The drastic overcomplication of low-level programming has nothing to do with what people do at a high level.
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Replying to @cmuratori @walkerb and
But this discussion, and how it somehow went from Jon saying that _low_-level programming has been ruined to people jumping on here to complain about "cultures" is a good reminder that I need to delete my Twitter account, because it's depressing as hell to read this stuff.
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Replying to @cmuratori @walkerb and
It doesn't make a low-level programmer's life any easier to know that someone can draw a circle in SVG. Like how does that help me? That is helping someone else make _their_ program. It's not helping me in the least, I just still have to suffer with the disaster underneath it.
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Replying to @cmuratori @walkerb and
So I guess the question just becomes, how do I delete me Twitter account _and_ still post news things, and I guess the answer is you just post to a blog and cross your fingers someone posts it for you... but that's probably worth a shot at this point.
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Replying to @cmuratori @bfod and
Sorry Casey. I respect you, Jon, and Bennett all. Although I'd probably forget to check your blog after a month.
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I don't think anyone really reads my Twitter posts anyway, so it probably doesn't matter either way.
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Replying to @cmuratori @bfod and
Although, to go more on the offensive: - Undertale was made in GameMaker - GameMaker almost definitely has 10^7 performance losses - Undertale is a work of art that has improved society - The maker of Undertale could not have worked in another IDE ...This is good.
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What does that have to do with the design of OpenCL?? Like, somehow, if OpenCL had been designed by sane API designers, then GameMaker would have been aversly affected? I completely don't understand what anyone is talking about anymore. It seems like they are from another planet.
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Replying to @cmuratori @walkerb and
GameMaker is an optional thing you use to make a game. It's totally fine if it's great, or if it sucks, or whatever. You just use it if you want to! OpenCL is one of a few APIs, and you HAVE to pick one of them. You can't program any other way. If they all suck, you are sad!
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Replying to @cmuratori @walkerb and
So just think of it this way: all I'm trying to do is make life better for the people who _make_ GameMaker. Because everyone who gets to pile on top got a free ride, right? But not the people who made it!
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So why not care about how hard it is to make graphics at the low level? It _matters_ how bad it is down there, because _someone_ has to do that dirty work!
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