Unity behaves weirdly with serialization and null references.
Gotta know em quirks

If I remember correctly, the Zig language has a specific set of keywords for compile-time stuff that actually 'includes' generics naturally

@Koolman42 oh so you must be my replace 😁

I was in a similar situation back in 2019. Jumped ship. 100/100 would do it again

@rov3rand0m feel you bro
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@PonySlaystation thats's remarkable but trust me when I say I've seen worse... I don't know if I can post screenshots of it though

@Wisecrack dang, mine is 18k, both you and OP beat me!

If things were popular based on their efficiency and correctness, we would live in a much better world

If you happen to have anything similar to a preprocessor just #define function class, then mass replace "class" with "function" in every file. Push, report to manager, 'bye see you tomorrow' and look for a new job while he's still pleased.

The problem is that most designers except the really senior ones are kinda clueless about the reality of the development.
Actually the Unity Editor is a _designer_'s tool. Unity _programmers_ should mainly write code, either for runtime or to make customized tools for designer use - but in the end it's always only the programmers on Unity and the design team making mockups and whatever.

The UI layout should have been made by an UI designer, _directly on Unity_, with help/assistance from a programmer for customizing components and writing behaviour.

@vane I sincerely laughed 😁

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@true-dev001 yes that's what I meant 😄 glad you're feeling better!

@true-dev001 faking confidence in the workplace is a really, really bad habit for your peace and wellbeing. I've done that one too many times and I'm still paying the consequences, so, lesson learned.

I still think that there's a diffused work culture that kind of _requires_ you to fake confidence, and boy is that toxic...

@true-dev001 well, I've bene trying for a while to come up with a method but can't say I have one. Just sometimes my own thought process puts things into perspective on its own and I break the loop (for a while at least).
It also helps a lot to talk with a friend who *can* understand the situation, or a therapist.

I've found that having a VERY clear understanding of what's expected from you is super important, and to set and enforce boundaries based on that understanding. May seem obvious but I think it's not; it doesn't help that some kind of management seem to intentionally mud the waters about that

Actually very relatable. For some people (count me in!) the worst productivity killer is giving work too much importance, and seeing the consequences of relatively minor failures as overwhelming. Mind gets stuck in a nightmarish loop and you're actually unable to do anything for a while, which further reinforces the guilt-procrastination loop.

@Lyniven yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to ask for a specific number; I'm actually more interested in the procedure used to get one, and how does it usually work out (you get paid yearly? how is 'manteinance' defined - just bug fixing? so in case of a feature request you charge as if it was a new contract? etc).
I might get some work with local businesses soon, and I'm still very naive about this sort of deals... getting some passive income for availability sounds great, but seems like a slippery slope when actually defining the terms

@Lyniven Just curious: how much do you charge for manteinance? And what parameters do you use to compute that?

A family member of mine was actually pissed off when I tried explaining that programmer != technician and said "why don't you switch jobs? that way you'd be more useful".
To this day I still can't wrap my head around this level of entitled idiocy

Well it's a daemon, seems just right

@kamen ok no, of course I'm not thinking about patents or anything. I'm just curious myself about what someone does in a situation like this: I suppose some grizzled veterans here on devRant may have suggestions on what's the best course of action :)
At the moment I'm field testing the idea by using it in a personal project of mine, and I'm having good results even though I know very well that until late development/manteinance I won't know for sure if the advantages are going to hold.
If that's the case, I will keeping using it for my business but i feel it would be right to somehow share the pattern with the dev community

@d-fanelli well that seems like something you should be aware of actually

Indie game dev is fucking awesome, but you always need to set a realistic scope for projects (both in terms of programming features and asset building pipelines). And for that you need experience. And to get the experience you actually need a lot of time and willpower, I agree.
It's also a field filled to the brim by delusional people, so team building is EXTREMELY tricky.

If you have a web or 'business' dev background, UnityUI is not going to be friendly for you. At its core, it's just a 2d renderer over the scene, not really handling gracefully layout elements. To draw a basic line you're probably better off using a really small line sprite stretched over the parent transform.

The new UIElements framework is much more oriented to a declarative style, even has its own 'breed' of CSS, but the last time I checked it was still quite unstable

SDL :')

I find this aesthetically pleasing in an uncanny way

@HiFiWiFiSciFi you're totally right, but I just get baffled by the fact that this only seems to apply to 'digital' professions.
I mean, almost nobody unrerstands shit about plumbing as much as they don't understand coding. But if you call a plumber, and he charges you 500€ for a few hours of work plus materials, and maybe puts on some machinery you're not familiar with, you just shut up, say thanks and pay.
While we get questioned for everything, have to bargain for a fair pay, and are kind of expected to always be available to fix whatever shit comes out for free even if it's not our fault - and often I hear things like "well you're passionate about this job, so I thought you'd enjoy to do this and that"...
And what really drives me mad is the fucking SUSPICION; clients interacting like they have to watch out for scams everywhere, while they're the ones actually scamming even though they're probably unaware

Ahh good idea. Really. Those people *deserve* to have their house, car and money mercilessly taken away. I've met one too many and I've grown an insane hatred for them. Like I just can't wait to find others just to bring them to tears breaking all of the wet dreams they could possibly have and making them realize their ideas are worth less than shit and that their very breath is a theft of oxygen from people who actually deserve to live aaaaaaaaargh

I had been making a living out of private programming lessons for years, so I can totally relate! Too bad the covid situation makes it unfeasible at the moment...

@Lor-inc weirdly enough, I also got the gig I'm ranting about in April