so, for the past few weeks I've been working on something a little different from my usual gamedev ^^

it's a story, a long one. it is about (programming) language design, but also about me, and also about my opinions. and in some sense you could also say it is about Rust, but also about that time I decided it wasn't enough and I set out to build my own programming language. it is also about mental health, and maybe even capitalism.

anyway, I hope you'll enjoy this one  I had a lot of fun writing so many words into an HTML document, it's my first time blogging, after all!

 boosts are very welcome  

https://blog.celes42.com/the_language_that_never_was.html

The year is 2031.
Chrome development has accelerated even more under OpenAI, to the point where every tab now needs 16GB of RAM.
Mozilla has been restructured and is now a joint venture between IBM and Oracle, aiming to put the "Java" back in "JavaScript" and some vague statements about quantum computing.
Opera's parent company has been absorbed by Tencent and now requires sign-in with a China mainland phone number.
Microsoft has rebranded Edge to "Copilot for Web" and is gradually removing the last hacks that allow manual text input. Amazon and Meta are currently lobbying the government to force Microsoft to sell Copilot to them. It's not clear what "Copilot" they're talking about, but that may be intentional.
Apple's Safari has escaped regulatory scrutiny for the most part, but its market share is slow to recover after half a decade of an "Apple Intelligence first" user interface that Apple has now finally reversed course on.

https://mastodon.social/@verge/114383625601142305

Porco Rosso 🐷 🛩️

#PixelArt #MastoArt #Art

Over the course of 2024, the Godot project has amassed more new features and community highlights than any one person can keep track of.

Find out if you missed anything essential in our "2024 Cherry-picks" blog post 🍒

https://godotengine.org/article/2024-cherry-picks/

Don't miss out on the showcased games either! 🎮

I am a programmer in the year 2024 who doesn't use AI.

I'm not even curious about it.

It's not just the mistakes. Hallucinations. Artificial confidence.

It's not just the unconscionable energy use. Laundering and reinforcement of historical biases. Ripoff of creative works. Exploited workers. Scams. Bots. Political propaganda. Mass surveillance to train the beast. And this is just off the top of my head here.

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