here is the first blog post on the new site, in which i make an embarrassing claim about my new favorite programming language. mildly NSFW ivysly.com/blog/daydrea... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

ivysly.com • 26 days ago

here is the first blog post on the new site, in which i make an embarrassing claim about my new favorite programming language. mildly NSFW
https://ivysly.com/blog/daydreaming-with-lua.html

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officialwils.bsky.social•26 days ago

v good post, for me creating art is messy and experimental and the rigid structure of programming (and formal game design practices too) really work against me. in all my other non game dev arty stuff I morph and adjust my process with the art so makes sense for that to be the same for games too

miomancer.bsky.social•26 days ago

“they necessarily communicate to you how you ought to think about data and procedures, and in the case of the game artist this means your creative output” nailed it right here. my main gripe with godot is how EVERYTHING has to follow the maintainers’ philosophy or the engine will fight against you

baiomuu.bsky.social•26 days ago

How have you outgrown Godot?

ivysly.com•26 days ago

main problem is that it really wants you to use nodes for everything. eventually I got tired of how much of a pain it is to do simple things like drawing a sprite to the screen. in a framework it is as simple as draw(sprite x y).
also Godot tends to be slow in a way that is impossible to work around

greenhairdonkey.bsky.social•26 days ago

Brb, reading this at work.

itr.bsky.social•26 days ago

I have my gripes with Lua, but the lion framework does a lot of heavy lifting to make it better. It's really fun to work with prototypes though.

I wonder if there's a more modern lightweight language similar to Lua I can try out.

toastino.bsky.social•26 days ago

puc-rio invented lua so we can have sex with it

endless-summer.bsky.social•26 days ago

you write good

endless-summer.bsky.social•26 days ago

also i quite like the site design youve got now

ivysly.com•26 days ago

ty

ivysly.com•26 days ago

i feel like i could stand to organize my thoughts a little less confusingly

pudgypoultry.bsky.social•26 days ago

There was an essay I watched where I heard the quote "There are people who are particularly good at reaching into the future, into alternate dimensions, and bringing back what they saw in order to make it a reality. We call them inventors or artists." I think about that a lot now.

pudgypoultry.bsky.social•26 days ago

While I don't feel the same limitations through programming language as expressed here, I do believe I understand the feeling of limitation in a way. I also respect the comparisons and thoughts because they're true honestly. C# is for businesses, "erotic" makes sense the way it's used.

pudgypoultry.bsky.social•26 days ago

I find a weird joy in imagining, then manipulating, entire systems, but I'm finding that it holds me back from making smaller parts of those systems or iterating like mentioned here.

I've learned a lot from ya over time in how you approach game dev, this article is great :)

ivysly.com•26 days ago

that characterization of artists bothers me because I think it's the opposite, in my view good artists are good because they look inward and take from the past, which realistically is the only thing you can do

ivysly.com•26 days ago

I'm not sure what the metaphor of seeing the future means because visionary artists are those who make the future what it is

pudgypoultry.bsky.social•26 days ago

That's valid. The surrounding context of the quote was more specifically about the artist being the one that makes up and imagines that future. Like the artist creates a future in their own mind, travels to it, then brings it back. My communication of it in a post probably reduced it too much lol.

pudgypoultry.bsky.social•26 days ago

Or rather, I do think the original agrees with your point here but the way I communicated it doesn't make that clear

jonah-srg.itch.io•25 days ago

I am not at all an engineer, but I am having a really good time getting started with Lua where other languages (before even working within a game engine/framework) have been miserable to play with. Now, were this written on python…

alora.only-elves.com•25 days ago

📌

badpiggyproduc1.bsky.social•26 days ago

No idea what the heck I just read, but I'm glad you're having fun with Lua

dashdavi.bsky.social•26 days ago

Ivy sly is on his honeymoon.

shardfable.bsky.social•26 days ago

tf did i just read ._.

ivysly.com•26 days ago

sorry

illusoryrealm.bsky.social•26 days ago

lua eroticism was the last thing i was expecting to read today

kleadron.github.io•26 days ago

YOMI HUSTLE creator DENOUNCES C# and ZERKS OFF to the Lua PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE