I also use it for avoiding recursive function calls. In theory, this will tell the compiler to just ditch the current stack and go back to the beginning of the function.

I think semantic search could be a use for it, except our corporate overlords won’t give that for us, as that wouldn’t be as futuristic as a “talking computer”.

You mean “innovate greatly”, right? /s

Technically yes, and with tile layers, you can even set them repeating on a shorter area.

The physics starts to glitch out, or at least used to, until it got upgraded to doubles. I also use doubles for my game engine, as well as (optionally) limiting pixel-precise things within int.max and int.min.

I’m the middle guy, but I’m a masochist, so:

https://github.com/ZILtoid1991/pixelperfectengine

Worse is when the image viewer uses a DLL that could read WebP, but the lazy devs wouldn’t add it to the file association list. Heard at least one case of intentional sabotage, because WebP did not work on a social media site.

What software are you using? I’m mainly using free and open source ones, they all can open it.

I use Krita, and it can open it.

Yeah, let’s stick with obsolete (JPEG) formats, so no one needs to improve their loaders (very hard), and people can continue to use that funny video editor that came with some old version of Windows without converters (very evil, Irfanview does not have the same meme potential as WinRAR).

> java

Yes

https://dlang.org/

D >>>>> Nim

But it was the beginning of the big data hype, so in exchange you got advertising data and anyone daring to object are probably criminals because “good citizens have nothing to hide”.

Also there was a big push for “web first” applications, thus there’s a lot of developers with that kind of knowledge. In college, I was instructed to instead of learning software optimizations, to learn how to outsource complicated computations to the cloud, where there will be always enough compute, so I can write my code “as clean as possible, without worrying about optimizations”.

Also Clock is now an Electron app running in its own instance of Chromium, because the devs are afraid of static typing, thus everything needed to be in Javascript.

The opposite of system language, especially as many scripting languages have “beginner” features, like a single number type instead of integers and floats, dynamic types.

I roughly based the nu-obsolete scale on language features not age (or use), TypeScript is just ECMAScript with an optional type safety feature.

“Obsolete Lang” is more of a looks category, and back then most programming languages were not much dissimilar from it. Basically Assembly had to stay unstructured due to how CPUs work, while the industry moved on.