idk why, but I wanted to see different “Hello, Worlds” in the programming languages I’m using/considering.
In a way, I wanted to see what it felt like to start a “project” and build it, then run it.
C
I don’t know C, but it seems like a natural choice for gamedev so I’m looking into it. It started this note.
I had trouble with gcc but that’s likely user error on my part with the recent nixos install. cc did fine and was already installed.
I’m both a fan and also terrified by the syntax, taking me back.
I need to look into the tooling a bit more I think.
Look at the opening bracket, that was recommended. I’m not doing that.
Rust
Never tried rust either. Another inspiration for this waste of time.
It feels, clean. But like in a magical way. That println!, the !, means it’s a macro. whatever the fuck that is (it expands into source code when compiling, meta-programming.). Reminds me of ruby? but systems level.
Sounds cool, but it’s already over my head. I love the docs though, so maybe it just takes time.
Go
I’ve been learning-go off and on for roughly the past year. It’s a neat language.
I kinda love it for very specific usecases.
Serving JS apps, scripting that I want to distribute that’s more complicated than bash, utilities.
I find Go a very utility first language. Some magic, but it’s all under your fingertips.
JS (Typescript)
One of these is not like the rest huh.
I’ve been on the bun train since just before 1.0. They hooked me on the typescript. I stayed for the builtin plugin manager, “faster” runtime, and neat features (command line parsing).
It’s fine, it works. It gets a job done.