Fayten makes a good point here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50452445 About this article is 100% clickbait and 0 substance
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Fayten makes a good point here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50452445 About this article is 100% clickbait and 0 substance
Zed, helix, nvim for small files in gui or terminal.
A solid Slow start IDE for solid extended time work
<Tin foil hat on> Microsoft doesn't want to allow software that would allow the user to shield themselves, either by totally encrypting a drive, or by encrypting their network traffic! </Tin foil hat on>
But if it is about using it as an embedded language. you want just enough language to get you started and be able to tweak controls. so that the embedded language itself doesn't take up unnecessary space, on its own.
It's a design choice to have a language as small as possible while still offering cool tools.
The only difference is that one of the language is embedded and barely takes any place. it's just a few C files :-D It offers just enough functionality while not making it overly complicated to make basic things.
The other one is way way bigger. and even Array.filter didn't exist from the start
Löve on the other hand is 100% just code. You'll not have the gui things and the pletora of different components that go with them. Still gives you freedom. Just too much freedom and not as much helpful preset tools.
I know Free and OpenSource software is only available thanks to maintainers who spend their time and money to make it available. This type of sentence though, makes all I just mentioned easy to forget, when they take that tone with you.
But employers think it is, and are falling for the hype and are affecting engineers left and right regardless.
Whether I'm wrong or they're wrong is immaterial.
They're still replacing SWEs with AI.
It also is just super slow on windows unfortunately.
But one day, one day I'll switch
Which is the actual issue. Learn CSS and treat it as part of the web stack.