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dud posted...

I'm just your typical web dev JavaScript bitch.

I'm not, so actually you know more about that than I do, making you probably more employable. I use MVC/Blazor for everything, UI, websites, apps, it's too easy. You could call it a C# bubble I have stretched to its limits. I know C++, Python, and even C, but with the little bit of Javascript I've used I wasn't happy.

C is awful to use, btw. A true dinosaur. My idea of "fun" is getting something done quickly. Really only good for programming some obscure custom hardware.

dud posted...

I have thought it would be cool to understand how something like a compiler works or to be able to modify an emulator.

A compiler simply turns your code words into CPU instructions that move memory around.

so for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { .. }

Converts to

mov 0 into an address that represents i
...
mov i into a cpu register a
mov 1 into a cpu register b
add a and b, output to register c
mov i into a cpu register
mov 10 into a cpu register
do < operation on those, output to register d
do conditional jmp based on whether d is true or false

This is how a compiled language like C or C++ does it. What modern languages do is more complicated, they interpret it and sometimes use a JIT compiler to speed it up while it's running. (Emulation community pioneered JIT)

If you are interested in learning how emulators work you could take a look into CHIP-8, which is a standard learning point for people who want to learn emulation.

I did a small emu for NES, which was very fun but harder than chip-8. I got donkey kong loading the game and getting into the menu select. You can do all this in Javascript, btw. I suggest using Typescript at the very least.

shadowsword87 posted...

So, help me out.
Is this mostly just people playing pretend being a corporation, or an actual group of people actually making things?

I'm really curious on the hard money side of things, instead of just cryptobros talking about making money, rather than making money.

It's two kinds of people. The first group is just people who see all the money being stolen and wish they could be the ones stealing. The true believers are wannabe Bill Gates who actually think crypto will be an entire sector. I've worked with both of these people. One of them basically begged me to make him his little scam project, but he couldn't pull himself away from PUBG for 3 seconds to learn anything other than Google Sites. I wanted to make a fun game and he wanted to keep explaining his revolutionary new economic plans.