I have been using Vivaldi for years now, on mobile (Android). Gave up after their recent update. Why? Because they changed the layout of the "reload" button. Previously, I could simply double-tap the "V" menu to reload the current tab. Now I have to either pull down (which is not always feasible) or find the "refresh" button in the far left part of the "V" menu, because double-tapping now brings the settings screen. Not sure what genius in their UX dept thought that opening the settings screen is more important than re-loading the current tab but they should change it back.
This right here. Rust is a low-level language hat makes a whole dimension of implicit knowledge explicit.
This is a very good thing, but if you are a programmer that is used to "copy paste, and then it works". You will have a very, very, very bad time with it. Rust forces you to think about memory. In an age where dynamic typing is so prevalent this seems like a fading art.
The problem is that content-creation has become prohibitively laborious and expensive. Don't even think about creating a Battlefield level (or similar levels) without having a team of people working on it.
3D models aren't much better. You can easily re-texturing and create new content this way, but adding new models, animations and AI requires huge amount of polish to be somewhere near AAA quality.
Of course I completely agree on the community aspect. Forums have been dying for a long time and left a vast graveyard of former communities. But this is mostly due to social media and how newer generations are using the internet. We have a continuing trend of centralization which has affected the gaming sector big time.
> but adding new models, animations and AI requires huge amount of polish to be somewhere near AAA qualities
On too, I remember wanting to get into the modding scene for an game I loved to play.
I did some research on the format used for 3D models and at the time the format was completely proprietary and supported only by software that costs tens of thousands of dollars most kidders probably don’t have sitting around.
The situation may be better nowadays, as I faintly recall the format being reverse engineered and supported on blender through plugins, but I may be created a hopeful fantasy.
Half-Life 1/Goldsrc was the golden age of modding, and I miss it dearly.
Don't get me wrong, plenty of modern games have vibrant modding scenes (Minecraft, Starsector, Rimworld, Elder Scrolls, Fallout) but we don't see massive total conversions like we used to.
I did read the beginning of the article and I wasn't too impressed. So I went through the comments, looking for bits of wisdom that might hint reading the whole article was worth it. Still, I wasn't impressed.
> I'm not sure where they got that idea from. Maybe they've been reading propaganda. Maybe they fell prey to some confident asshole, and convinced themselves that Rust was the answer to their problems.
That's a very strong statement and I don't see any back up on this claim.
> At any rate, I now find myself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, and a lot of compile errors.
Sounds like a layer 8 problem to me.
I already questioning everything in this blog post that comes after.
I didn't downvote you, but other people are because it seems you're misunderstanding what the author wrote.
For example, the "confident asshole" link goes to the author's own site. He's referring to himself as the "confident asshole". He's being tongue-in-cheek, funny, joking.
The "propaganda" is also a joke because, well, it's true that memory safety issues lead to security problems.
