krisajenkins

Absolutely!

That article misses the #1 reason to use stored procedures - putting the code right by the data can be a massive performance boost. Like, orders of magnitude faster than travelling over the network.

I don't think they have pivoted. They're just realising there's nothing game-specific about the database they built for BitCraft, and they're widening the scope.

The direction is more games-to-general-purpose than games-to-AI.

I totally agree. The thing that's drawing me to Spacetime is that it blends the processing model of actors and the data model of relational databases really neatly.

Data comes in, do something with it, store your state in a principled way, repeat. Add in subscriptions to data and it becomes reactive. Simple.

A coding video that walks you through building a Neovim plugin that can do some interesting Docker actions.

We ran out of good names years ago. Then Java came along and we used up all the words beginning with J. Then the dotcom years scooped up all the domain names and all the twsted up wrds like flickr. Then npm took all the variationsofpunctuation, varations-of-punctuation and variations_of_punctuation. Now there are no virgin words left in the English speaking world.

TBH, I'm amazed that Proton wasn't already taken.

An in-depth interview about Zig with Loris Cro of the Zig Foundation.

An interview with the creator of Gren, a new functional, fullstack programming language that branches off from Elm.