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By Pappy_reen · Posted
Hi all: Wanting to contribute to the wiki here: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki When I follow the 'help' hyperlink outlining how to start contributing it takes me to an index of all pages, none of which is help!! What is this idiot doing wrong? Please help! -
Honestly, I'm not convinced that optimizing a programming language primarily for absolute beginners is as beneficial as it sounds. Python followed a similar philosophy, but learning to program well is vastly harder than learning a handful of keywords. Any design tradeoff that makes the language slightly easier during the first week, at the cost of making it less expressive or more awkward for experienced users over the following years, seems questionable. Nowadays, if the goal is to let people write programs in natural language, LLMs already provide a much more flexible solution. You can describe the program in your own language and have the model translate it into an established programming language. That avoids permanently baking "natural language" compromises into the language itself. Python is an example of the downside of prioritizing beginner friendliness too much. The core language is simple, but once you start doing more advanced things, many features feel like workarounds layered on top of the original design. The result is code that can actually become harder to read and reason about than languages that were designed with more consistency and long-term scalability in mind.
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By wowgetoffyourcellphone · Posted
Moar mockups, this time for the Civilization Overview : -
By wowgetoffyourcellphone · Posted
I think it would be nice to have auto-scout as a feature. In a lot of games with the feature, some people use it, while many don't. Higher-level players find it doesn't scout as efficiently as they want it to, so they prefer to scout by hand. Lower-level players like the APM it frees up, so they are more likely to use it. I think it's a fine feature. It's something that was desired in the original game design 20 years ago. It would be neat to have it come back.
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