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I love how you can write like 250 lines of code for fun, while the biggest thing I have ever done is only twice that(it is pretty mathy code tho)

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I've written libraries that are thousands of lines of code long spread over like 30 files

250 lines is barely anything lol

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no idea how you can write so many libraries, without like an actual project to use them. for me all that abstraction feels very quagmire-y

i wanted to make a Virtual File System library like a month ago, and it didn't get anywhere. but if i do a word count, it's already 800 lines long!! how?.. that's just a bunch of boilerplate code, that barely does anything 0_0

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it depends on what exactly I'm writing, but I tend to write libraries that either have an immediate use for me, or that I think I will have a use for later

here are some examples of large things I've written:

1. my nixos configuration: 1176 lines of code
2. my emacs config: 684 lines of code
3. linear algebra library (I wrote this because I wanted to write something that needed a matrix type, and the language I was using didn't have a good one): 3433 lines of code
4. optics library (I just wrote this because I thought it would be fun): 4897 lines of code
5. univalent foundations mathematics library (this is a fork, so only like a quarter of these lines were actually written by me): 41726 lines of code

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wow that's so cool!

i'm now inspired to make my own list

1. website builder (2022; C) -- 1468 lines of code, 4 files and 8 scripts with 902 lines more code
2. shell scripts (2020; mostly bash) -- 2187 lines of code over 66 unrelated files
3. VFS library (2023; C; very unfinished) -- 825 lines of code and 4 files
4. vk/tg bot collection (2020; C) -- 3704 lines of code and 14 files
5. graphics hello world collection (2021; C) -- 3044 lines of code in 23 unrelated files
6. extended C preprocessor (2023; C; school thesis) -- 2914 lines of code and 7 files
7. screenshot editor (2021; C; school project) -- 3542 lines and 18 files
8. polyhedron renderer (2017; js) -- 2286 lines of code, 9 files and 2 separate versions (made from scratch)
9. asm and "c" compiler for fake cpu (2017; nodejs) -- 1047+1335+4433+2552=9367 lines, 29 files and 4 attempts (the 3rd attempt even worked enough for me to write a working snake game in that "c")
10. tetris (2017; js) -- 1011 lines of code and 5 files
11. terminal minesweeper (2018; nodejs) -- 1791 lines of code and 8 files
12. no OS snake game (2019; pure C) -- 632 lines for the game and 729 more of boilerplate i stole from somewhere else

*C projects do not count header files as files, but do count the lines in them **the years mentioned are the starts of projects. some of them last like 3 years tho ***this is by no means a complete list

it's easier for me to write programs by mitosis of the main function, and not by first guessing what kind of library i will need later.

feel free to ask me stuff about each project!!

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@brightgreendandelions The Minesweeper intrigues me. How exactly does one go about coding something like that, and is there a way I could play it? I know that some versions have safeties in place to prevent 50/50’s. How would that work?

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it looked something like this. the orange box is my cursor, and it moves with the mouse.

the code depended on a wired nodejs library to read mouse moments, so it no longer works with newer versions of node... luckily it came with an old version included... the mouse calculations are a bit off, and i had to turn off Display Scaling in windows! also the sound doesn't work.

i wanted to remake this in C some time ago, with the actual proper escape sequences for mouse interactions, but never got around to it.

regarding the 50/50 thing i didn't do anything at all! i think you can even lose on your first move!!

it's written in nodejs, so playing it on your own will be a bit difficult. i can't just upload the code to my website 0_0

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That’s really cool! I actually find the thought of losing on the first click hilarious. The most experience I have with coding is one or two html projects back in 7th or so grade, so the fact that people can and do create stuff like this is mind-boggling.