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My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch (in Bash)

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    goose
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    I've been trolling a friend of mine with all these fun bash posts who (friendly) despises my bash scripting and constantly reminds me that I should use a real language. When I sent him my little...

    I've been trolling a friend of mine with all these fun bash posts who (friendly) despises my bash scripting and constantly reminds me that I should use a real language. When I sent him my little "how to turn any bash script into a one liner", he described it as "the worst thing he's ever seen coded".

    Years ago he was pretty heavy in development for minecraft, with plugins/mods and such. I can't wait to send him this. Thanks @hungariantoast !

    12 votes
    1. goose
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      His response, for completeness:

      His response, for completeness:

      “The code is currently lost, due to my extensive use of tmpfs as a project directory, and a system crash”

      What is wrong with bash diehards??

      Do you not have a hard drive!?

      11 votes
    2. [2]
      Trobador
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      What does he consider a real language you should switch to? Real question.

      What does he consider a real language you should switch to? Real question.

      2 votes
      1. goose
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        Any. He's suggested python, node, and most recently go. And he's not wrong ... I'm just not motivated to learn a programming language.

        Any. He's suggested python, node, and most recently go. And he's not wrong ... I'm just not motivated to learn a programming language.

        3 votes
  2. Weldawadyathink
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    Next someone needs to build it into LLVM. If we could compile LLVM IR into bash…

    Next someone needs to build it into LLVM. If we could compile LLVM IR into bash…

    4 votes