Thank you again, for writing that. I found some valuable life advice in it. I know what you mean about existential dread. Realising you don't have time for your hobbies is more or less the same as realising you're mortal; that you have limited time on Earth and its quality goes down. Time. I need to...

Do you mean the flash drives will contain data encrypted with one-time pads, or do you just plan to use them as one-time pads for the "game" itself? So they will all have the same one-time pad?

We should make it possible for other people to be able to build the compiler themselves, and to make releases. I never realised that there is now a bootstrap version of the source code available for download, so FB can now be compiled easily. It would be nice if FB packages were included in more OS...

Requiring both ncurses and tinfo sounds wrong. Maybe it happens only if libtinfo.so is a symlink, and ld adds both? I'm not sure. FB only requires the terminfo subset of ncurses. If libtinfo exists on the system then that is linked, otherwise libncurses is: '(From fbc.bas) '' libncurses and libtinfo...

I rely on most targets, so would be happy to maintain them, as possible... except I won't have a Mac for much longer, and don't have a Win64 machine.

It would be great if at least one more version, with as many bugs as possible fixed, will be released. Having a bug free (or almost) compiler is essential. There's no such thing as a bug free compiler, and FB isn't even close. (Which is OK; you can work around compiler bugs.) If FB development slow...

Oh, is that the reason? I thought the recent posting about Kotlin everywhere was just a meme. A few people have compiled FB programs with Emscripten. v1ctor created a branch for it (basically creating an SDL 1.2 backend for libfbgfx), but you don't need to use it to use Emscripten. I haven't tried i...

I'm reaching the point (I'm still in my 20's) where my pursuit of happiness (ie. programming) is making me unhappy, because I worry about how I might better spend my time/use my skills while I'm doing this. Of course, you are right that only I can make that determination, and I just did. I just answ...

Thank you for the enormous amount of work you're done on FB. We've benefited greatly from it. No open source contributor can be begrudged for deciding to do something else. I think that other people will pick up and make some contributions. I hope you'll still be willing to spend a little bit of tim...

Thanks for writing that anonymous1337 (and thesanman112), it resonates with me too. Programming for me is a hobby which has definitely become an addiction. I have to wonder whether I'm deluding myself, telling myself that I'm doing something productive and learning (which is true), while largely I'm...

To extend sancho2's example, note that you can also put a dynamic length array in a Type. Declare it like "As Integer n(any)", or "As Integer n(any, any)" for a two-dimensional array, etc. But; this, more general, is not allowed (based on "function ArrayReturner( ArrayExampl...

Here is a StackOverflow answer. The tl;dr is that the black-and-white "Apple Emoji" font, which are apparently the ones used on the Unicdoe code charts, are free to use for nearly any purpose. However, there is apparently no license at all for the Apple Color Emoji font. Which you might b...

He's talking about Codejam (and a bunch of other mumbo jumbo) I meant to submit some solutions to codejam in FB this year. Eh, maybe I'll do it the next round this weekend. Google themselves apparently check all solutions after the contest by compiling and running them, so I wanted to force them to ...

OK, thanks. I see now that size_t doesn't appear very much in the headers shipped with FB. However, it is used everywhere in the existing crt/ headers which were translated with SWIG, so I wanted to be consistent to make it easier to compare. However, adding crt/ headers for FreeBSD to match all the...

(Forgive me if reviving this old thread isn't appropriate, but it's been done several times before) Is there any way to get fbfrog to preserve size_t instead of converting it to uinteger? (I'm converting system headers on FreeBSD) Also, in a separate project I successfully converted a simple C++ hea...