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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by joshu on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:37PM (#32829891)
when i realized that it is a strange programming language with an insane IDE i was able to quit
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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by lake_vincent on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @05:42PM (#32830515)
Ha! Which programming language would you say it is comparable to? Asking for a friend...
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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by contravariant on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:45PM (#32831139)
The kind of programming language that's designed to make things not impossible, but just a little inconvenient. A bit like Brainfuck, Excel or Lambda calculus.

If that sounds appealing to you stay the heck away from Zachtronics.

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by sph on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:53AM (#32834044)
Most of my factories resembles the Visual Basic 6 programs I wrote in my teenage years. Spaghetti doesn't even describe it.
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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by joshu on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @03:30AM (#32834283)
the conveyors are almost literally visual spaghetti!
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