“The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions.”
I mean, this is cringe AF.
Kotlin ‘built by communism’? Because the founders of JB are Russian? Is that it?
Swift is ‘greed’ how? It’s open source since 2015 or so; & available on Linux. Apple’s graphical toolkits are ‘closed down’; & obviously restrict users’ freedoms; though not sure how that implies ‘monopoly’. ‘Monopoly’ would be trying to dominate all toolkits, not have one’s own.
Vague word associations are cool, I guess.
lighten up man
I think a lot of jokes are better if they have a kernel of truth in them
Removed by mod
Yes, Tetris was a real example of this. I think it was the only videogame the USSR ever
producedexported.Edit: Actually I think I remembered that wrong. They had a healthy domestic arcade industry. It was just the only one they bothered to export.
I just lost the game
Is this an ad?
The blog post itself is, but these Toggl comics are high quality original content
Are they the oatmeal guy?
No, the name is in the comic - Mart Virkus. I like his stuff. https://arcaderage.co/
Haskell isn’t really that hard to learn. It’s just changing the paradigm, that takes a mind shift for the first two weeks, maybe a month.
I don’t play games that much to make such comparisons, though.
Games don’t always have win conditions…
Swift is open source, I don’t get the “lesson in corporate greed” angle.
