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   NARFNra (narfnra@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 05:56:41 JST NARFNra

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   @toffy do u have any thoughts on c++... ive been debating learning it is it a good idea

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     toffee the cat 🌸 (toffy@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 05:56:36 JST toffee the cat 🌸

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     @narfnra omg!!!! yesss become a homebrew creature, i got started in N64 dev and it was wild & confusing loll, but its a cool space... if you get started pls show it off I'd love to see

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     NARFNra (narfnra@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 05:56:38 JST NARFNra

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     • toffee the cat 🌸

     @toffy well maybe not really easy but you know what i mean. like i can just put it on my computer and it would run... it's interesting to me too b/c i know a bunch of old games were coded in c versions and some evil part of me is like some day i should become a homebrew creature... hmm.. anyway thank you so much! i just love asking silly questions lol

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     NARFNra (narfnra@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 05:56:39 JST NARFNra

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     @toffy that's exciting... yeah i get what you mean. one thing i realized once i started getting better at programming for real was that basically you can do almost anything higher level in basically any language depending on what ur used to... it's interesting to hear the comment about lua too...

     to some degree i really want to mess around with low level stuff because the idea of porting being really easy is exciting to me

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     toffee the cat 🌸 (toffy@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 05:56:41 JST toffee the cat 🌸

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     @narfnra i have absolutely no thoughts on c++ im afraid coding it has erased all of my thoughts.. after 10 years i wish i had something insightful to say but not really!!!

     C++'s greatest boon is knowing that i can make basically Anything i want that can feasibly be done on a computer until the end of time using just Lua and C++, but most people dont need to care about specifics or performance enough to justify the sorta clunker experience of writing C++

     if what you want to achieve can be done in literally any other language then please do that instead, it'll be safer and smoother and simpler. u probably don't need to write drivers or background programs. the #1 priority is to enjoy your life, efficient code is #2

     BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!! writing in C++, making all your own memory/vector/string stuff instead of using stdlib will open your 9th eye. if you want a good challenge, my favourite project ever was making an intel 8086 simulator using no stdlib, and making a GUI for it in Raylib. i think that's like, a double stacked learning experience