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There was this beautiful little time period where async/await was basically just that: resumable functions. I abused it to implement generators.

Do you happen to still have a link to this software?

Not plate, unless at very close range and at a very favorable angle. Mail, sure.

A traditional roguelike, in the line of TGGW/Cogmind/Nethack/Brogue/DCSS, would probably be nice. Not really a "slow strategy game", granted, but the fact that animations/colors aren't necessary makes it a good fit IMO

A FORTH gui would be an interesting project as well

Nope, since Self is a declaration and not a field it won't take up memory.

The original article is here: https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2018/10/how-to-make-a-rog...

The author is the creator of the popular commercial roguelike, Cogmind.

I don't think this is the place to air out all the dirty laundry from the past two years, so I'll just say this: since the time I've joined the site (three years ago), I haven't seen a single ban that wasn't warranted, be it due to a single incident of flouting the site rules or a pattern of behavior.

It is true that the moderators are fairly strict regarding behavior that wouldn't be punished here (such as abusing flags to down vote), but I don't see that as a necessarily bad thing.

Regarding the thread you linked, I'll agree it was the admin's fault for writing the passive-aggressive banner that led to that (well-respected) user leaving.

He apologized: https://twitter.com/croloris/status/1568704125826748416

Shelob is not a primordial being. She is one of the children of Ungoliant, who is herself a fallen Ainur.

Barrow-wights are Bombadil's servants? Ridiculous. Tolkien made it clear that they were the spawn of the Witch King, sent out to ensure that no men could settle in that particular area. This is reinforced by the fact that Bombadil himself destroys one of the wights while rescuing the hobbits.

Imagine all the adult toys that would be dug up. Fertility cult or something.

I’m beginning to wonder whether the entire article and response was sarcasm

Since we're talking about roguelikes, Brogue[0] is awesome as well.

[0]: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE

Indeed, I passionately hate programs where the order of the options and files/arguments matter just as much as the options themselves.

I like to use forlater.email[0] for this.

[0]: https://forlater.email/

(Author here.) Fair enough, I should have done my research on that. I had barely touched Myrddin, was just beginning to look into Zig, and hadn't heard of (or felt the need for) that feature in Rust at the time I wrote that post.

It was public but unlisted, so you won't find it from the frontpage. (i.e., the same level of secrecy Hare's website had before the release.)

(Author here.) Yeah fair enough, it's not really a complaint worth making. I was more just listing things I noticed in general than faulting Hare for it.

Yes, it is indeed outdated, however some of the criticism/praise is still relevant. I'll see if I can take a second look at the language in the coming days.

Author here.

Fair enough! Since writing that I've done a lot of Zig code, which has labeled loops, and I can say it's definitely made a lot of code clearer than it would be otherwise.