I still am not sure what to think of this entire thing. It feels that at a certain point someone started playing some circus music, and they forgot to turn it off.

I might be open to the idea, but it would need to be a trustworthy company that doesn’t cancel stuff left and right. An ide would be too annoying to switch constantly to take this risk.

(What do (you) mean? ( Lisp certainly has its (downsides) and (upsides)))

This seems more focused on commercial license holders. here paying for your ide is not that uncommon, and also the amount of revenue to be gained is a lot higher. That being said I always found it a bit weird that jetbrains didnt make clion free for non commercial use as they did with pycharm/intelij.

I honestly have no clue. I mean I know we eat rice, but wouldn’t say we eat a lot of it. And while we do have a large immigrant percentage, not a significant amount of those are from regions where eating rice is popular.

Those certainly also look nice, did not notice those

The second part has some of this, but not as in depth as i’d like.

Back in the day before university (around 6 years ago) I got recommended a mooc(massive open online course) by the university of Helsinki. I used this course to get started with learning to program, and to find out whether it was something for me. It has been some time, and it seems they update the course but I hope it can help you too in learning. Here is the link: https://java-programming.mooc.fi/. It really starts from 0, with setting up te environment which is nice. It is in java using the netbeans ide which some would call antique, but in my opinion that does not really matter to start to learn.

I’d say around 1 time a week. I guess it just tends to happen with a lot of devs working on a single project. But we do have a daily rebase policy for all development branches, so I can’t remember the last time it wasnt some includes mixing badly, or a file being moved. These are all easily fixed.

I’d say take the latest stable one, whuch atm is 4.0.3. they releases their major rewrite(version 4) a few months ago, but for now they still support version 3. Considering you are starting from scratch i’d say just go for 4. I have never used their tutorials myself (went about with inly the public docs, and looking at other project), but they have an entire page dedicated to it https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/community/tutorials.html. Feel free to take any one there.

Considering you have a low end pc i’d recommend trying godot. As someone who has been in the gamejam scenes for few years now I have seen it be used more and more. It is not the most powerful engine, especially compared to unity and unreal. It however is by far the easiest both on user experience and on computer resources. As a bonus it is fully free and open source, which is always nice. For the learning part I’d recommend just starting, being bad at something is the first step in being kinda good at something (this is a quote from somewhere, and i dont remember from where). Good luck!

Single main takeaway here, dont use msvc if you want your sorting algorithms to be fast. Quite surprised by how large the difference is.

Sure, the Odin project does seem like a good starter resource. Full disclosure hoewever is that I havent used it myself, I went through it due to you post. It also is difficult say as everyone has a different learning style for these things, i dont know what yours is. However strictly speaking to the eloquent javascript book you will find the ramp up of difficulty be way smoother (the book goes from modules to aynch programming wow). I did however notice that the odin project is very focussed on learning how to programming, without learning why the code does what it does. A bit like learning how to work with a machine without learning how the machine works (just do this to get this result, dont ask why it is that way). This is not necessarily bad, if it is what you are looking for. Also personally I find that even their advanced course have a low to mid skill ceiling, not what I would call “advanced for experts”. Anyway you could spend days trying to find the best foothold to start programming, or you could just start and learn along the way. Odin project seems like a good way to just start doing stuff. I would recommend going a bit further with the projects, personally I have found that programming is something you learn by doing, and considering you already are quite good with server management and such you already have the skills to search stuff to implement something extra. Good luck!

Maybe we should get the lemmy server hosts to also do an ama, not to throw shade or anything (alright maybe a little)

I wonder if we will soon be able to apply these techniques to general compiler optimizations, would love to see which crazy optimizations we are leaving on the table there.