In my experience VCMI already feels like a proper Heroes 3 game, even if it doesn't fully support HotA mods, etc. It's certainly the easiest way to play Heroes 3 casually e.g. on an M1 Mac, and it has no wine-related crashes, and doesn't require a virtual machine with Windows's x86 emulation workarounds (like having to limit the game to a single CPU as otherwise units wouldn't do any damage in combat :))

There is always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_digital_synthesis, FWIW.

The comment is by the author. And it's not wrong! You can get super cheap microcontrollers for pennies that will act as an easy to use programmable oscillator, if that's what you want. And more to the point, you usually want an oscillator to _do something_, not just to wiggle in isolation, and the cheap microcontroller lets you skip the middleman in many cases.

Yes, you're using a million transistors to do something you could have done with a couple of discrete passives, but it will often result in a lower total BoM and development time. Not always.

> Perl 6 would have had to be a better Perl 5 and a better Python 2 to win.

Don't sell perl 6 short. I am using perl 6 for significant projects now (after a career of perl 5) - and it's fundamentally different. I describe it as perl to the power of perl.

For me, expressiveness is fundamental. And perl 6 gives me that.

Perl 6 is simply suffering from python being everywhere. And perl 5 was always easy to lampoon as "line noise". It's a stupid quip, but it leaves a mark on new programmers. You don't even need to read the course and you can already have an opinion. Stupid kills? And then perl 6 doubled down on that anyway. Then I doubled down on that ALSO and I get to use (carefully chosen) unicode symbols in my line noise :-) So there.

> Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary

Wee bit sexist...

EDIT: Yes I know it's a proverb, I'm not blaming the parent post.

EDIT: 4 downvotes? Nice.

Cycles seem to invoke undefined behavior instead of being outright disallowed.

For these sorts of things I tend to go to the circuit simulator[0].

Also, for a game that teaches about this stuff while still being incredibly fun, I highly recommend Turing Complete[1].

[0] http://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/

Wait we’re supposed to avoid soap now? Wtf