I don't get the appeal of "fantasy computers"
Just find the most obscure gaming computer from Japan or some shit and program on it LMAO
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@PurpCat Their limitations prevent beginner devs from "over-engineering" while still using modern languages like Lua.

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@PurpCat Most people are afraid of manual memory management these days.

There's no escaping it. You just trade explicit malloc and free for trying to track down which closure still has an active reference somewhere and is therefore causing your node application to eat all available memory.

@mikuphile @PurpCat @xianc78 I believe there's been a whole-ass unixlike system written in Lua that's constrained in a Minecraft automation mod.

@mint @mikuphile @PurpCat @xianc78 Writing MCNix solely to have an optimal automated item sorting and retrieval system. I respect it.

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