Reflections on Maxis, SimCity, and world views in computer games: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/video-games-are-better-without-characters/387556/
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It's odd that games often show the hours played, but I've not seen this in other apps.
"You've spent 20 hours talking to this person." Would this be a usage deterrent? If so, why do many games offer it by default?
I'm trying to decide what program I should show on the home page of my PL.
Hello World is too simple to show much syntax. Fibonacci is OK but the reader may not know what print(fib(10)) should show.
Maybe print(greet("World")) is better? It gives you a function definition at least.
It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time.
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded performance! https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/73vs3766/AMD-Athlon-64-4000+-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-PRO-4650U
Maybe *relative* performance of languages matters more?