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That was mostly a "tongue in cheek" joke : ) What I meant was that the code base is overwhelming both because it has some years on top and I don't like/understand lisp that much

As an Emacs user for ~10 years the greatest deterrent is it being single-threaded and lisp. I just can't understand the love for it. I've spent countless hours customizing my own configuration and I just can't enjoy lisp. Emacs's source code is also hard to understand and contribute to (let's not talk about lisp.h).

I'd rather have a new editor (or emacs fully re-written) with the same mindset as emacs - near-full customization via a modern scripting language (lua?) and/or c/cpp plugins, and text-centric. I don't care for fancy UI or buttons it could even have the same look and feel which I love

> History is repeating. Instead of investing into hard work and portability with programmers, the management decides to take the short part which looks cheap.

I agree with this point of view for bigger companies that do chat and music streaming apps. Nonetheless if you're a __much__ smaller company who needs to do cross-compat. applications and has problems hiring personnel (either due to lack of, or too expensive) technologies like Electron saves them a lot of trouble, money and time...

It's an absolute mess of a software, to get running and if you're not paying attention you'll install 15+GB of packages you won't need.

I've helped some friends with c++ assignments during college and with ROS they had to have dozens of terminal windows open running some command just to get things working.

This is the same for me barring the walking. Usually I'm at my best focus in front of a whiteboard and talking to myself out loud, because walking distracts me. I work in a busy office where there's a lot of noise (which I'm sensitive to) and where I can't speak to myself loudly, so I feel I'm not very productive. Teleworking has been awesome

Not adding much to the discussion, just want to say how great this website is and its articles! They have been a fun read and fantastic resource!

How so? Can't you do it from the Moon with low delta v as well? (honest question) And I think the Moon's proximity and "static" position relative to the Earth is another great advantage.

I think he means it as in "I'm not one to cater to people's feelings"

While programming I don't need to be creative all the time. I find it very pleasing to understand how this systems work and emulate them. I do confess though, that after a while and after understanding them some Opcode families can get a bit boring. But in general I do enjoy emulators very much and don't find them boring at all.

Perfect, thank you. I've been using this image but only to cross-check the opcodes values and what they meant.

Glad I'm not the only one : ) Thanks I'll go check it

The mooneye-gb project is the one I've been checking the most to make sure I'm getting things correctly. His work is massive regarding the game boy.

I've been developing a Game Boy emulator with a friend as well, and struggling a lot with the poor documentation. There's a very thorough PDF with lots of information online but when it comes to Opcodes (and cpu flags) it's quite inaccurate. Most often than not I have to skim through several github projects to check that the implementations match. (which sometimes don't)

Perhaps we'll start doing a Nintendo64 emulator instead which is more complex but from what I've heard/read has much better documentation.

"My work is in scientific reesarch..."

Good for you, but that wasn't what I meant. "Do nothing" in regards with the current situation, not in general.

And Musk and his team (and I believe many others) are qualified enough to present other, engineering, alternatives parallel to the main one. Why shouldn't they? Why is that seen as attention-grabbing?