For programming languages that make use of {}, the reason is (almost always) scope.

Take for instance this:

for i in 0..10
do_thing();
do_other_thing();

compared to this:

for i in 0..10 {
    do_thing();
}
do_other_thing();

The intent of the first one is unclear. In the second one it’s clear you should loop do_thing() and then run do_other_thing() afterwards. The indentation is only for readability in the above though. Logically there would be no difference in writing

for i in 0..10 { do_thing(); } do_other_thing();

Languages that use indentation and line breaks for scope look more similar to this:

for i in 0..10:
    do_thing()
do_other_thing()

In English, Ey-You-Arr.

In Swedish, diphtonged Aw-ur, pretty similar to Our but with a more pronounced aaah sound. A-U-R would be two glottoal stops (Ahh-Uuh-Err) and is pretty uncomfortable to pronounce in Swedish.

StackOverflow: Marks as duplicate, links to deprecated version of answer that doesn’t work anymore, closes

ChatGPT: answers differently each time you ask the same question

Generating quick programs like “a python script that calculates the mean value of two hex colours, outputting the result as a HTML file displaying the resulting three-color gradient”? Yeah, AI is decent at stupid simple tasks like that, and it’s much faster than me writing the script or calculating the values myself. I tend to generate things like these when I’m working on something else, don’t want to spend time on things outside the project I’m working on, and can’t find a website that does the thing I want.

Touching my actual code? Hell no.

Been thinking about that game I started building a while back. Got some new ideas. Might pick it up again soon. It’s been so long though that I have to read all my notes and figure out what I was doing before I can do anything new. Dreading that part.

True. However they are part of the symbol gibberish category.

Haha yeah, made me think of escape sequences

Animal Well.

No combat, big emphasis on (hard) puzzles and exploration. Great atmosphere. Played it on my Steam Deck.

Can you play DOOM on the light switch?

What exactly do you mean by a “non-unixlike OS”? Like, do you just want an OS that does not require any knowledge of Unix from the start?

If you’d list a few “unixlike” features you’d like to avoid I’m sure we’d be able to find something that fits you.

1. Start writing a small game in Godot using GDScript (basically Python)
2. Use the Godot docs to read about C# alternatives to GDScript as you go, compare them and see how they differ
3. Translate bit by bit of your game to C# using the docs
4. Congrats, you have written a game in C#

One big favourite is the fan translation of Mother 3 for GBA.

Yeah, COBOL schools and boot camps have started to pop up

Haha yeah it was the only way I could make sense of it…

First function is a sine wave, commonly written sin().

Second function is a cubic (“square”?) polynomial.

Joke:

Everyone else’s life: Sin.

My life: Square.

Edit: as pointed out, it’s not really square

Learning some functional programming. It really influenced the way I think about code and make coding decisions.

C this guy gets it!

“Did you get the reference? Do you need a pointer?”