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3 Billion Devices Run Java, but nobody would seriously claim Java won, come on

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oh my god why did i never realise before that i can trivially write a patch for touchHLE that just logs every single function call, with full arguments. since i have full type info for every function, and i can easily keep track of their names (usually)

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/984c31419774754bac8c475f09b46babdf9dc939

interesting technical puzzle, perhaps an interview question: how would you convert a UNIX timestamp to a calendar date (YYYY-MM-DD)? with minimal research!

well, I now have my own answer to this :3 https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/c94a8311fa8140068b7d187c34dfa3110955d31b

i love living in the year 19123

fwiw I don't feel good about touchHLE's code being on GitHub since it'll get fed into Copilot as training data, but I feel trapped by network effects. I don't know if I'd have gotten half as many contributions if it wasn't on GitHub :(

it has been 0 days since someone made an unhelpful comment on the touchHLE GitHub that's just a verbatim ChatGPT response

it bothers me how many game engines have custom shader languages that are very poorly defined and ad-hoc, a heap of preprocessor macros on top of standard glsl or hlsl with weird restrictions

“a place further than the universe” is a wonderful anime

Android support has finally been merged into touchHLE trunk! a few things still need to be fixed before the release, but it's now weeks, not months. a huge thanks to ciciplusplus for taking the initiative. without them this wouldn't have happened so soon! https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/b7792fa77351da821b7d2e9bde398de7c00af39b

if you force me to commit a 53KB jar file and multiple shell scripts into my project's VCS because that is simply The One True Way to use your build system…

may your descendants be cursed by large .git directories for 10,000 generations