Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C
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QuaternionsBhop
5 minutes ago
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I recently wrote klondike in Rust after getting frustrated with bugs in my friend's LLM-written version. I highly recommend it as a recreational programming exercise, the first 4 hour blitz filling out the types was a blast. Later, trying to make as many invalid moves unexpressable by the given types as possible was a fun challenge. I ended up with a 232 byte struct for the board state with all values stack-allocated. The only way to make it considerably smaller would probably be to encode card permutations.
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userbinator
25 minutes ago
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Everyone knows that the != operator is a surplus of the C language, use only the minus operator.

It's notable that on most CPUs, the comparison instruction is equivalent to a subtraction but without writing the actual result.

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ares623
37 minutes ago
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I thought games need GPU acceleration and React? How is this possible?
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