Happy new year, all!

Can't promise I'll post any more frequently than I currently do, but I still exist and I'm still working on projects I love.

It's the flower quest all over again, but you have a bit of leniency. You can take 1 hit, maybe 2 if you rush most of the way.

This is why I will never, ever, take a penny for posting. The incentive structure is absolutely wild. 12-15 hours a day to make cash as a paid Twitter influencer?

No thank you. I’ll be posting 12-15 hours a day for the RIGHT reasons (my brain is broken from all the Internet).

His brain is becoming soup, an unfortunate side effect of holding onto this much bigotry.

Don't give me hope like that

Privatizing public services? I remember privatizing the train system worked out so well for the UK.

let mut indexOne: usize = 0;
while indexOne < listOne.len()

Was iterating between two lists and needed to compare numbers at the same index.
I'm sure there's ways to do it better, but I'm new to the language.

Never mind, I've determined Rust to be the worst language ever.

I can't believe there's no ++ operator :(

Appreciate the words of encouragement! I don't really have a 'big project' in mind for Rust, but I'll continue with advent of code and see what I think of it after that.

Overall, day one of Advent took me about ~30 minutes just using cargo through the command line and VS Code. Seems pretty straightforward so far, though I haven't delved into file reading/writing and other more advanced things.
It gets my thumbs up so far.

-Docs and cargo check are actually really good at figuring out what I did wrong.
-Somewhat Javascript-like way of declaring types, I prefer a more explicit [variable type] [name] = [start value] rather than let x = 0;, but that's just my preference

Alright, initial thoughts on Rust:
-Type system is a bit fiddly, it's a bit difficult to tell if I have to unwrap something, or change the variable type to something else (iterating through a vector with an index can't be done with an integer, has to be done with usize variable)

I know it's pretty late in the year, but I'm going to give Rust a try with Advent of Code.

I've heard good things about Rust and it's never too late to try out a new language.

Of course, the modern way we do this (/setblock, /fill in a command block) are much better and allow you do change blocks much easier, but it always warms my heart to see someone create a bizarre and hacky solution that somehow works in a game engine that was never designed for it.

Recently saw www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpGS... and was reminded of the time I was a teenager and saw Sethbling's first contraption that used spawners with Time:0 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Limitations breed creativity if given enough time to experiment.

Github perhaps needs to update its Actions tab, I've got a private repo I want to set up a simple runner for, and nowhere on the actions page (or the Actions section in Settings) does it mention you have a limited number of minutes per month.
It's 2000, which you shouldn't really hit, but still.

Me: Why is this file that I know I am writing to showing up blank?
Stackoverflow: Have you called file.flush();?
Me: Oh.

There's gotta be an alternate of the "two hard things in programming, cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-ones", but for threading, file operations, and a third thing.

Hello, world.