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Messages - Radnen

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Engine Development / Re: neoSphere 5.9.2
You've done fantastic work, Fat Cerberus! I do try to log in once every month or so. With the rise of so many indie games, I'm still surprised Sphere hasn't grown too much... I first found out about it on... sourceforge! Believe it or not, haha. I'm just glad to see miniSphere still gets some work on it every once and a while.
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Engine Development / Re: Oozaru: Sphere for the Web
I have been playing a game called CrossCode lately and it's clearly HTML5 based engine, but they had console releases, which gives me hope on Oozaru... I might think about using Sphere again. I was toying around with Game Maker, but I think it may be easier to build the game in Sphere? How's the performance?
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Engine Development / Re: miniSphere 5.5.0
miniSphere is Sphere now. Good job Fat Cerberus! Congrats on the v5.5.0 release. :)
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Off-Topic Discussions / Re: Happy new year everyone!
Happy new year, all. It's been well over a decade now w/ this community, and even longer for others too! :)
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Hellos and Byes / Re: My return
Hello Datomas! I think I remembered someone like you... The community is fairly active on Discord. https://discord.gg/ApNjK5
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Libraries / Re: EventEmitter for miniSphere
I like this idea, it's great on turn based tactic style games, and other event driven behaviors.
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Engine Development / Re: Tileset won't update...
Since it's minisphere; it's likely an issue with Cell, the game 'compiler' system, which is supposed to compile your assets into a distribution folder for release. In this case the 'dist' folder has an outdated tileset.
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Programming / Re: So I wrote a monad tutorial...
@FatCerberus: I think you just nailed it with that post, bud. :) That's indeed the simplest explanation yet. I was looking for a simple overview, like an "all-together", and what you just wrote, is it.
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Programming / Re: So I wrote a monad tutorial...
I'm only loosely aware of monads and in theory know what they are. Like I knew that a JS Promise is a monad-like structure, but not exactly as to why.

I'd say I understand Monads a bit better from an imperative context, but I also think your tutorial isn't necessarily the easiest to understand. I think if one has a lot of programming experience, one can follow along, but at the very end of the day monads are complex, and must take a complex chain of thought to understand. And, if anything, actually making a monad and playing around with them interactively is the best way to learn.

But as for me, I will definitely say I came out learning a lot more about them. So, I do think it's effective for more seasoned programmers, Does it break the curse? I dunno, but I'm sure you'll find out someday!
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This is looking really sweet and I"m very happy to see how far Sphere has come with it's new JS and graphics engines. Keep it up! I might even get back into game dev with Sphere again. My girlfriend wants to work on a game with me, haha.
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Hellos and Byes / Re: Happy 2019!
Hi FBNil! Long time no see! I hope you have a fantabulous 2019 too! :)
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I'm still baffled the widespread popularity of lodash... when libraries you and I write can be an order of magnitude faster, and any missing convenience methods lodash has, can always be added.

Anyways, I didn't have from.js on me, but I ran your parameters on my new Linkier library along with lazy and Link and got:
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const Linkier = require('./linkier.js');
const Link = require('./modules/link.js');
const Lazy = require('./modules/lazy.js');
const Benchmark = require('benchmark');

// Generate a random list of 100,000 integer between 0 and 1,000.
const items = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 100000; ++i) {
    items[i] = Math.floor(Math.random() * 1001);
}

const suite = new Benchmark.Suite;
const linkier = Linkier(items).filter(n => n % 2 === 0).take(10000).map(n => n + 1);
const link = Link(items).filter(n => n % 2 === 0).take(10000).map(n => n + 1);
const lazy = Lazy(items).filter(n => n % 2 === 0).take(10000).map(n => n + 1);

suite.add('Linkier', function() {
    linkier.reduce((a, n) => a + n, 0);
}).add('Link', function() {
    link.reduce((a, n) => a + n, 0);
}).add('Lazy', function() {
    lazy.reduce((a, n) => a + n, 0);
}).add('For Loop', function() {
    let n = 0;
    let r = 0;
    for (let i = 0; i < items.length; ++i) {
        if (items[i] % 2 === 0) {
            n++;
            if (n <= 10000) {
                const m = items[i] + 1;
                r = r + m;
            }
        }
    }
}).add('For Loop 2', function() {
    let n = 0;
    let r = 0;
    for (let i = 0; i < items.length; ++i) {
        if (items[i] % 2 === 0) {
            n++;
            if (n <= 10000) {
                const m = items[i] + 1;
                r = r + m;
            } else {
                break;
            }
        }
    }
}).on('cycle', (event) => {
    console.log(String(event.target));
}).on('complete', function() {
    console.log('Fastest is: ' + this.filter('fastest').map('name'));
}).run({ async: true });

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Linkier x 4,242 ops/sec ±5.49% (78 runs sampled)
Link x 3,786 ops/sec ±2.13% (91 runs sampled)
Lazy x 2,917 ops/sec ±2.87% (91 runs sampled)
For Loop x 2,213 ops/sec ±2.01% (96 runs sampled)
For Loop 2 x 11,052 ops/sec ±1.52% (97 runs sampled)
Fastest is: For Loop 2

What we learn here, is that hand-writing a for loop can be slower... The first for loop doesn't short circuit after 10,000 items, but that's on intention. How many times in writing a for loop you think of doing that? Therefore from.js, link.js and other libraries are going to be faster since they can make those common-sense decisions for you, and just automatically make your code faster.
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Spherical News / Re: Forum updates thread
I really like the theme going on. It's easy on the eyes and says "Sphere". Thanks!
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Same with Fat Cerberus. I didn't know Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown was a thing! I just tried in Chrome and it worked. Guess you learn something new every day.

I do use Shift+Insert to paste all the time, however. On a nice full keyboard, at least, it feels nicer with just the right hand.
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  • Dispatch.onExit: Run some code on shutdown, after the event loop terminates.  This works even if the user manually closes the window!

I like this. This prevented me from writing a clean MMO in Sphere back in the day. I had to 'poll' every user to see if they were actually logged in or not every like 5 minutes. Good times, hahaha,