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  • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.mlRedox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust
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    11 months ago

    This is one of my main gripes with the rust community. What programming language you used shouldn’t be of any concern to the end-user, let alone be put in the tagline.

    Rust is a very good and capable language and I enjoy using it. I can’t wait for the day it overtakes C or C++. But I want to know more about the program I’m using other than that it was written in a popular language.

    “Written in rust” is basically a meme at this point.










  • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlEnjoy your Call of Duty
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    1 year ago

    remember when they managed to squeeze a game with 3d+music into a CD? (Lego island)

    Back then a CD had about as much storage as your entire hard drive. Also, lego island isn’t really a AAA game. A AAA game from 1997 would be something like final fantasy 7, which came on two whole CDs. Drive capacity hit a boom around the 2000s and 2010s, and only recently have AAA games been catching up.

    People always want to blame this shit on game developers being lazy, and they’re not wrong that a lot of AAA games are bug ridden messes designed to please shareholders. But games are getting more and more complex, and these developers are being forced to work under strict time constraints.

    That doesn’t mean there isn’t room to improve. Maybe offering different download options depending on your storage needs should become a common practice (iirc some games used to do that back when internet bandwidth was limited).