ever notice how most of them look like a rectangle and have glass on the front?

even if that wasn’t the case, a 90% success rate is absolutely abysmal in practice.

neovim. I have customized my config to my liking over the past couple of years. + it also can opn embedded terminals, so I don’t have to leave the editor at all while working

it’s not. It’s been done before countless times. The only thing that’s different this time around is that the usb cable’s other end is connected to an ipad

not really. first of all async in not the same as threading. And even then, while it makes parallel code easier to write (not easier to reason about), it still has the exact same footguns as anything else, as soon as you venture away from having only one consumer for every producer. Synchronization is still all on you

no, it doesn’t. It finally supports usb video devices, which the gameboy camera is not.

What it could support is a modified usb video device that uses a gameboy camera as one of its parts

op asked about using bash because it’s already there. Your answer is the complete opposite of that. twice

json with comments can be parsed by a yaml parser. It’s how I write yaml, in fact (yaml is a superset of json. any valid json is valid yaml, but it also supports comments)

it could compute in 64 bits (which most games, especially from that time, did not need nor used)

It had a 32 bit memory interface. Games need a lot of memory throughput so that was a limitation.

It was technically 64 bit, but only in ways that didn’t matter

stuff that’s supposed to be fast might have lots of little bits and pieces here and there written in assembly, for performance. Replacing all that for a new architecture (while ensuring you get the exact same result) takes quite a bit of work

the way I see it, you seem to need to learn and understand all the same concepts as when using regex in order to write a functional pattern in this. It does not seem to really offer any abstractions really. It’s just regex with a really really verbose syntax. Once you learn the concepts (which you have to anyway) then learning a new syntax should be easy with a simple cheatsheet. The syntax for this actually looks more complicated to me.

if it can only be used to create regexes, and all programs compile to regexes, then it is a regex flavor in itself.

And let’s not kid ourselves, regexes are not that hard. They can look cryptic, but in most cases they’re not really that hard to understand.

all this does is make it much more verbose and introduce the HUGE inconvenience of a separate compiler for regexes, since regexes are typically embedded within other files written in other languages that this compiler can’t understand. So somehow regexes would end up needing their own file.

oh god no, that’s an even bigger abomination than regex themselves