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New comment by ElegantBeef in "Keep Android Open"

ElegantBeef — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:57:34 +0000

If you're cheap like me a used Pixel3a is a grand device.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

ElegantBeef — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:53:01 +0000

Working on a hot code reloading library for Nim. It's a general solution, but specifically for my game framework.

An example of it in action: https://streamable.com/2mxktc

Source code: https://github.com/beef331/potato

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Tachyonfx: A library for creating shader-like effects in terminal UIs"

ElegantBeef — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:10:02 +0000

There's not much more to share presently. The game presently is very far from having gameplay. The "terminot" part is MIT licensed inside the game repo. The game itself is presently GPL3 licensed.

Small hacking game: https://streamable.com/q840oc

Source: https://github.com/beef331/keyboardwarrior/blob/master/scree...

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Tachyonfx: A library for creating shader-like effects in terminal UIs"

ElegantBeef — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:36:39 +0000

As someone working a TUI game I wanted stuff like this myself so just wrote what I now refer to as a "terminot". Actual shaders and non grid align rendering. Nice to see people attempt to emulate it in a proper terminal emulator.

If anyone is interested in what a terminot does: https://streamable.com/t5kz2y

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Arraymancer – Deep learning Nim library"

ElegantBeef — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:59:07 +0000

It does not formally have variadics, but since it has tuples you can have pretend variadic generics.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Can you use a class in C?"

ElegantBeef — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 06:00:31 +0000

Again that's this language constraining you to that. With procedure overloading it's not required that you have to have that ugly API. For instance the following is valid Nim:

  type
    Cat = object # these are just 'struct' in a different skin
    Dog = object

  proc greet(c: Cat): string = "Meow"
  proc greet(d: Dog): string = "Bark"

  assert Dog().greet() == "Bark"
  assert Cat().greet() == "Meow"

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Nim 2.0"

ElegantBeef — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:33:22 +0000

I use pixie for my game framework. It's used to load textures, layout fonts, and render font atlases. It can be used for generative art but https://github.com/EriKWDev/nanim or sdl2 using renderer's makes more sense as they are gpu accelerated.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Nim 2.0"

ElegantBeef — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:06:47 +0000

They likely read "overloadable enums" and went "Oh Rust calls their tagged unions enums" so assumed all languages did.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Nim 2.0"

ElegantBeef — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:05:15 +0000

> It lacks proper sum types

We've talked about this before! You know it has sum types, just not the variation you want.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Nim 2.0"

ElegantBeef — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:02:43 +0000

I do not use Rust, so sadly I have not.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Nim 2.0"

ElegantBeef — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:39:49 +0000

> default behaviour is pass by value

Is not exactly true, smaller than 24 bytes is passed by value, the compiler optimizes larger calls and passes by reference implicitly.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Nim 2.0"

ElegantBeef — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:38:09 +0000

For Rust at least one can use https://github.com/arnetheduck/nbindgen

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Nim Succession Plan"

ElegantBeef — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:07:50 +0000

Ah, yes the French, people historically known for good protests. If only that somehow related to the conversation at hand.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Nim Succession Plan"

ElegantBeef — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:37:40 +0000

As a contributor it is still an awful non sequitur that does not answer the question, and brings up a fantastical world.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Valve Releases Proton 8.0-1c"

ElegantBeef — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:49:33 +0000

If you care DayZ was BE enabled back in like October if my memory serves me correctly. The Cycle always supported it through Proton. Hunt recently enabled it like a month ago(finally, HMMMMing on linux is good).

New comment by ElegantBeef in "Valve Releases Proton 8.0-1c"

ElegantBeef — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:23:47 +0000

Hunt, Dayz(as does Arma3 and Reforger), and The Cycle all work on Linux.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "This Month with Nim: March 2023"

ElegantBeef — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:47:32 +0000

Well there is a practical reason that in a whitespace significant language you do not want to mix indentation types. I personally prefer tabs for the user customization, but the actual reasoning that generally speaking it was(is?) hard to get tabs to render as you want in a multitude of environments whereas spaces always render as is.

Quick someone reset the inane "Days since mentioning style insensitivity".

New comment by ElegantBeef in "This Month with Nim: March 2023"

ElegantBeef — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:43:45 +0000

Indent size is up to the programmer.

New comment by ElegantBeef in "I learned seven programming languages"

ElegantBeef — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 22:11:23 +0000

To explain 'why' it behaves this way is quite simple the stdlib does not have slicing operators for all of your expected cases, Nim does not have postfix operators(aside from [], {}, *) so 3.. is just impossible to define. If one really wanted to https://play.nim-lang.org/#ix=4nSQ solves most of the issues.