#progam

[laboumlattelove]

Laboum at The Unit🌸

08.11.17🌸

[orifu]

i dont think im allowed to use X as a generic term anymore because of twitter. maybe we can use T like those Darn Programmers.

[orifu]

i blame a lot of javascript design decisions on java (i mean, its in the name). like no one likes its coercion. which is probably based on java (like how you can add a number to string). its not even about usability because python (widely regarded as very usable) doesnt allow this (you have to directly convert it to a str or format it).

and yes, its probably not java's fault this evolved into [] + [] == "" and {} + {} == NaN. but at least javascript didnt inherit java's ==, which doesnt actually test for equality.

and javascript has a bunch of legacy features that should probably be removed. like "var" which has been effectively superseded by let and const bc var's behaviour was unintuitive. but its still there for backwards compatibility (cant break cookie clicker).

compatibility on the web in general is a mess because theres 3 major completely different implementations of web engines/javascript engines/whatever. but there are alternatives to having to stick with all javascript's weird design decisions.

theres typescript, universally recognised as javascript But Better. and programming is a hell of a lot easier when you at least get to know the type of whatever you have. and then theres webassembly, a newer technology which allows you to use a wide variety of programming languages. yes there is now a dialect of machine code designed for the web.

so the moral of the story is, read the docs

[orifu]

shout out to cloudflare workers for being the only thing ive ever worked with where typescript is harder to use than javascript

[orifu]

okayy i didnt look at gradients in deltarune but i rewrote a lot of things to make it a bit easier to work with then added text shaking

until then enjoy entry number 17 as made by my silly program

[orifu]

ive been looking at the gradients in deltarune for the undertale text box thing

only by looking at the deltarune source did i realise the drop shadow on the text has a gradient (from grey to dark blue), but the ends of the gradient are cut off so you never see them.

also the coloured text is always a gradient from white to that colour

so tomorrow im gonna figure out exactly where the gradients start and stop (its different for every character) and then copy it exactly

until then heres the repo

[orifu]

ugh i finally got the comic sans pixel font to be completely accurate to undertale (hopefully)

it 100% matches all the text boxes ive tried so far and is more accurate than demirramon's text box generator and deltatraveler

guess im doing papyrus now.....

[orifu]

im a master debugger there could be like three ppl trying to fix a thing & i glance over and its like so obvious ??