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Almo

18:17

Liking the customizability of Android Studio. Of course, it's based on IntelliJ, so what else would we expect?

Icy Defiance

I was just disappointed they used the same shitty emulator program. I knew they would, but it was still disappointing, lol.

hopefully VS2015 has something nicer. I haven't tried the preview yet.

Almo

it wanted to install some emulator that I'd have to change BIOS settings for

OMGtechy

@Almo hardware virtualisation probably

Almo

yeah that

OMGtechy

that's a good thing

Almo

18:23

I can't do it though

I doubt IT would let me mess with the BIOS

Icy Defiance

that would be a really good thing. I don't remember seeing that option or I would've tried it.

that's probably true though

stupid work environments

OMGtechy

@Almo why on earth not?

Almo

you missed it last night Icy... 1/13 Blitzcrank. Team went 42/44 despite me sucking horribly, but we lost anyway.

Icy Defiance

geez

Almo

I don't play that badly that often

OMGtechy

18:24

this just popped up on steam

store.steampowered.com/app/353530

Icy Defiance

lol I played one league match last night and watched a wukong and vlad both go mid and just trade kills with each other every time they got back to lane

Almo

heh

Icy Defiance

at 15 minutes wukong was 4/4 and vlad 3/4 and both had like 25 cs

Almo

hahaha

Lokkij

> suffice it to say this game is like a ragged pair of boxer-briefs to me now (in a good way)

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

OMGtechy

18:37

steam controller store.steampowered.com/app/353370

steam machines store.steampowered.com/search/#category1=993

3 way SLI steam machine xD store.steampowered.com/app/353500/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

MickLH

@OMGtechy great minds think alike

OMGtechy

MickLH

example = function (a, b)
    return a + b;

I translated it to my language :P

OMGtechy

ahaha

indeed they do ;)

how's that come along?

MickLH

It's actually working somewhat

I've got the C interface mostly working and the core data types, so I've managed to pop open an OpenGL window and clear it with color :D

But the compiler spits out shitty fallback code for 99% of everything, where it just relies on the dynamic runtime to sort out the weak types when the compiler really should have caught it during the trace

OMGtechy

18:48

ah, yours is (relatively) weakly typed?

MickLH

One of the strong types is the "weak" type :P

OMGtechy

aha whut xD

What does that even mean

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

God I love mixes of childhood game music. :P

MickLH

@OMGtechy I have a datatype called var which can effectively be a string, number, array, map, function, or class. And a datatype called ref which is basically a smart pointer.

It handles a lot like javascript with that

Almo

what's the point of having an IDE if I have to edit arcane build scripts to include a library that I'm making

OMGtechy

18:52

@MickLH ah. So it's dynamically typed?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@Almo What IDE is that?

Almo

latest Android Studio

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

MickLH

@OMGtechy Actually that's the really weird part. it really is strongly typed

OMGtechy

@MickLH Python style?

MickLH

18:53

But, if you access an undefined variable, it's implicitly defined as "var"

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Been a few years since I worked with that. But I didn't find it particularly enjoyable. I think working with Visual Studio has made me picky.

MickLH

@OMGtechy How specifically should I compare / contrast?

Almo

between VS and Xcode, it's hard for me to use other IDEs.

PHPStorm is pretty good as far as PHP goes though

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I've never been able to enjoy using PHP.

I think it's in large part because typing $ is an awkward 2-3 key combo.

OMGtechy

@MickLH in Python, types aren't coerced, but they are inferred and can change by reassignment

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

18:55

It's funny how little things like that can be so annoying.

MickLH

@OMGtechy Then yes it's very similar, except that types are always coerced

OMGtechy

So not similar at all then :P

more like Javascript than Python it seems

MickLH

But that only really shows up if you use strong types

OMGtechy

"example" + 4 # TypeError in Python 3.4

MickLH

If you never "use" strong types, then everything ends up being a var, which appears to change type when you coerce it around

OMGtechy

18:57

can I see / use this language anywhere?

MickLH

so: "example" + 4 == "example4", but 4 + "example" == 4 (and a warning in the debugger)

OMGtechy

Yup, JavaScript style

MickLH

@OMGtechy If you really have some kind of burning desire, I could upload code immediately. That would be embarrassing but it technically isn't broken beyond use completely right now.