Increasing my contribution to Zig to $200/mo

this meant they had came across Sun’s Project Wonderland - the delightfully terrible 3D virtual workplace of the future (or so Sun thought, before they had to sell to Oracle.) It was terrible, barely a good demo ... It required something like 32 CPUs and 64G of memory to run the server for just 8 players

That brings back some awful memories. Project Wonderland was a great idea, a federated open source second life, but it was plagued by java and the architecture astronauts java so frequently attracts. I thought it would be ideal to setup a training/simulation system for our web based software, it had an inbuilt browser and assets we could script, but trying to run just the client on my 2GB laptop was too much. Second Life was incredibly slow and ugly but this was an order of magnitude worse in every way. I think if I were trying to do the same thing today unity would be a far easier path.

Regarding languages/game engines - is anyone aware of good game engine, that is thread safe?

My limited experience with Unity was that it's cool and fun until you want performance and then start hitting these annoying concurrency limitations.

Seems like Godot also has some limitations like that. [0]

Is that something that is general limitation of game engines design or limitation of languages they are implemented in?

[0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/threads/thread_safe_apis.html

This quote about the V programming language surprised me, because I had the exact opposite experience.

it was the unfriendly community I came across, the controversy surrounding it, and the secretive nature of the project that made me lose faith in its promise.

I know V has some controversy around it, but the community has always been open and kind in my experience.

Since March of last year, I began basically working two jobs: every day after I sign off from work at Sourcegraph, I spend around 8 hours working on game development.

How does one do this and still sleep? Is your position at Sourcegraph still part-time?

It's pretty funny, when people are looking for "better c", but "forget" to look at D lang Especially, when they don't care whether language has GC or not