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It is maddening how little stock game makers put into things like reset times, load times, and so forth. If you build a hard game that expects me to die a lot, don't make we wait 45 seconds after each death to get back into the game. A big component here is the load times you talk about.

It makes sense, you aren't telling sql server how to do something, you just tell it what you want and it figures it out. You aren't even doing procedural stuff at that point.

I like the RAD tools being qualified as 4GLs as I haven't really thought of them that way but again it makes sense.

Also screw PowerBuilder. I am sorry if anyone in this thread likes it...but it is seriously awful.

Edit: Before people jump me, I do know that you have some influence over execution plans with join orders, hints, etc.. but by and large you don't tell SQL Server how to do it's job.

The - works with git branching as well for those who didn't know. git checkout - will switch to the previously checked out branch so it effectively toggles between your two most recent branches.

Can anyone see the token person of color or did they not even bother this time?

Yeah and unfortunately it's going to get worse when AI agents are also always running in the background (which is inevitable, let's be honest).

I get what you are saying and this is definitely a factor but I think the bigger influencer was mobile adoption. As soon as smartphones took off it was inevitable that we would see a surge in cross platform frameworks/libraries.

The fact we tackled this problem by shifting everything to web apps was also inevitable given the more simplistic deployment requirements and maintenance costs of a website vs native application.

I feel like I am shouting to the void when I talk about performance of modern software being unbelievably bad.

One could say they are streets behind.

Looks promising although I think it's unfortunate they based this on VSCode instead of the Code - OSS repository that VSCode itself is based on. VSCode is Code - OSS but with added Microsoft tooling. The vast majority of users wouldn't benefit from the MS additions with the exception of the extension store but you can enable the official MS extension store in Code - OSS as well.

Will be interesting to see how this progresses as they get more adoption.

Giving them your settings provides them (and anyone they sell it to) with more insight about you and how you use their software. This is valuable data and it kind of drives me crazy that articles refer to this as a free option. It isn't free. It's Microsoft pricing something low enough to get sales from middle of the road people, while being high enough that a lot of users opt into the backup option. It's a poorly veiled attempt to extract more of you for their training, their ad sales, or their targeted sales.

That is incredibly insulting to jellyfish.

Take it a step further: include an option to disable all cutscenes and a speedrunning mode with in game timer.

CrossCode was gifted to me and I went in knowing nothing about it. I don't know if I would say it is the best written game story but the way it unfolds is emotionally gripping and managed to make a crusty jaded gamer like myself feel the full range of emotions. Highly recommended.