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Yes, I was shocked at how small it is. I had no experience working with such limited resources going into this project. Our router had 32MB of storage. At one point I was looked into adding a python interpreter, and it was like 11MB. The Lua interpreter is like 250KB. Tiny!
Also, the ternary operator has the best syntax of any language I have ever used.
x = [condition] and [true value] or [false value]
No question marks or colons or anything weird. It’s a logical extension of && and || after commands in bash using keywords since it is a verbose language. I wish every language had this syntax.
For contrast, python is:
x = [true value] if [condition] else [false value]
It just seems weird to me to have the condition in the middle.
The web UI backend stuff is all done in Lua. So receiving and processing forms was all Lua. My main feature that I implemented was a REST API that was called from another product that my company sold. So I had to do all the REST API processing and data validation and whatnot in Lua.
I don’t really have recommendations, because I really only knew our product. If I knew what I get, I probably would have got that instead of the Asus router that I ended up with when I had to return my work materials.
I was the lead engineer on an Openwrt router for 2 years at my old job. Their documentation is complete and utter shit, but their design is extremely intuitive. Whenever I said to myself, “hell, let’s just try this and see if it works,” it had an insanely high success rate.
I didn’t know Lua going into this project, but when I left the company, it made me really wonder why more people don’t use Lua. It’s a really nice language.
I really enjoyed having my own open source router that I could just drop new features into by adding packages and recompiling. I was sad when I had to send all my dev units back.
I could, but I feel like it’s easier to research games and browse the sale catalogs on my computer. It’s not like I’m going camping where there’s no cell access, I am probably just going to be pretty busy and might not have time to look carefully.
Edit: I guess not. But I still have no doubt it will because the first one did.
I put about 1500 hours into Destiny 1 and at least 1000 hours in Destiny 2 (I don’t know the exact number because I played across Xbox and PC).
Eventually I stopped playing because the content was coming out too quickly, and I couldn’t keep up. I didn’t want to play the game full time. Also, I could never do the raids because you need to commit to a 4+ hour play session to learn a raid, and I just don’t have that kind of time to play games all at once anymore. I did when I played a lot, but I don’t anymore, and I start losing interest in Destiny when that happened.
It happened to a bunch of people I used to work with. I worked for a small company that almost went under. About half of our staff got laid off one day. People with unvested stocks got fucked. 4 years later the company was sold, and our stock was worth a life changing amount. Those poor guys got fucked so hard. I was able to buy a house before I turned 30 with that money.
Games like No Man’s Sky, The Master Chief Collection, and Cyberpunk 2077 are praised nonstop for fixing games well after launch. There’s basically no repercussions for a company to do this. I just don’t buy games anymore unless I have looked at plenty of reviews that seem to agree that it’s up to my standards. And my standards are honestly lower than most people’s.
I watched some gameplay, and it looked like a 0/10. Combat was just spamming the same button. A boss fight was just roll, attack, roll, attack, roll, attack, and you’ll never get hit. Falling through the map when jumping. Asset placeholders not replaced. Animations not finished. It looks like a game that should have had another 2 or more years in the oven.
OpenVPN server was my number 1. Being able to VPN back into my home from anywhere in the world was amazing. I can’t really remember any other, since it was more than a few years ago.