What is a farmer as a dev?

You’re becoming more like your father!

This is disingenuous. Does your bike regularly take you to the wrong destination?

Well yeah, procedurally generated worlds were basically what I expected. The game was pretty explicit about that. And it was still fun. Elite’s no different in that regard when it comes to exploration and I also have fun with that

Lol “my opinion is actually objective fact, gentlesir”

Nonsense, those of us who weren’t plugged into gaming journos 24/7 enjoyed it on release. I couldn’t have cared less that it didn’t have multiplayer or whatever. I wasn’t even aware of any controversy at the time.

There aren’t that many first person space exploration games outside of nms and elite and nms is much easier to get into. It was fun, and still is

And I don’t count starfield because starfield is just a loading screen simulator

It has millions of players who enjoy it.

Most scripting languages have a global scope of some kind. It’s not that big of a deal.

I’d prefer not to have it, but it hasn’t caused me problems in many years. Actually, the window object can be really useful in some situations so I’m not even sure about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Smarter_than_a_5th_Grader%3F_(American_game_show)?wprov=sfla1

Please. If you actually bothered there’s tons of data to validate this trend. It’s been known for years now, this isn’t exactly news.

Anyone capable of doing damage already knows how to format and read minified code anyway. I do it in prod all the time when I want to test something with an override, which causes the source map to become invalid.

I work for a large software corp and we generally keep them in prod because it makes debugging prod issues much easier. The browser only downloads them when the dev tools are open.