MapleLeaf 🍁

I'm close to thinking I just fundamentally can't work on a team. I don't _want_ to think that, but I've hit repeated friction in the past caring about things that others apparently don't, for better or worse

but capitalism demands it. I can't delete capitalism. am i the problem? doesn't matter - I've tried and failed to change myself, so i either stay miserable, or the world fucking burns, I guess

I'm close to thinking I just fundamentally can't work on a team. I don't _want_ to think that, but I've hit repeated friction in the past caring about things that others apparently don't, for better or worse

And now, I'm buried into uselessness by the cognitive and social burden of fruitlessly trying to figure out what problems are worth mentioning and what isn't. I'm feeling like I have to come with a corporate slideshow with numbers, charts, statistics, and research papers to justify anything.

obscenely good open.spotify.com/album/0Hzpap...

gdscript as a language is like... weird its elegance comes from how nicely it integrates with Godot, like the dedicated syntax for signals, exports, custom node types, etc. but elsewhere, there are so many papercuts and seemingly missing features that it feels awkward to write at times

but even if that wasn't the case, it's still frustrating because GDScript is _so close_ to being great. and it's not even tiny nitpicks, or maybe it is? but they're constantly present in frequent, basic usage. and like... it makes me feel like I'm using the language wrong? or something

gdscript as a language is like... weird its elegance comes from how nicely it integrates with Godot, like the dedicated syntax for signals, exports, custom node types, etc. but elsewhere, there are so many papercuts and seemingly missing features that it feels awkward to write at times

all of these things add up to make a nice and elegant language on top of a patchy type system that largely feels like an afterthought

gdscript as a language is like... weird its elegance comes from how nicely it integrates with Godot, like the dedicated syntax for signals, exports, custom node types, etc. but elsewhere, there are so many papercuts and seemingly missing features that it feels awkward to write at times

no generics! while Array and Dictionary (only recently, but thank god) can be generic, you cannot have custom generic classes or types, and generic _functions_ are nonexistent they needed to add lerpi and lerpf for ints and floats respectively because lerp is untyped and also works on vectors. ugh

gdscript as a language is like... weird its elegance comes from how nicely it integrates with Godot, like the dedicated syntax for signals, exports, custom node types, etc. but elsewhere, there are so many papercuts and seemingly missing features that it feels awkward to write at times

`is` doesn't narrow variable types... kind of? if you write this: if item is Actor and item.on_stage: the `item` variable isn't narrowed after `and`, but with this: if item is Actor: if item.on_stage: you get autocomplete, but the type is still seemingly unchanged? scary and confusing

gdscript as a language is like... weird its elegance comes from how nicely it integrates with Godot, like the dedicated syntax for signals, exports, custom node types, etc. but elsewhere, there are so many papercuts and seemingly missing features that it feels awkward to write at times

and the big one: the type system on the positive, it's nice that it has good inference (usually) and runtime validation. I'm glad it exists, and I'd rather have what's here than have nothing. but what's here is rather... frustrating

gdscript as a language is like... weird its elegance comes from how nicely it integrates with Godot, like the dedicated syntax for signals, exports, custom node types, etc. but elsewhere, there are so many papercuts and seemingly missing features that it feels awkward to write at times

no keyword arguments - feels puzzling that one wouldn't take one of the best features from its primary source of inspiration, Python no structs/record/dataclass equivalent - tiny small-scope well-typed structures are still best made with class definitions and verbose Java-style constructor init

i envy those who lack self-awareness