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Re:My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:20PM (#25141152)
> Is anything you listed even remotely on the same level as "assembly language and pascal with s3m libraries to program a game"

Wasm and WebGL certainly are.

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Re:My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her... by sjy on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:24PM (#25144637)
Has anyone ever learned those languages on an iPad though? Even if you know a few languages already, learning a new one by writing software on a device with a small screen, no keyboard, no filesystem, no native app IDE, no browser debugger, and severely limited multitasking, seems almost impossible to me. If I had an iPad rather than a computer running Windows 95 when I was growing up, I don’t think I’d know how to code today.
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