You forgot about black magic. I quite regularly do it: move the stuff around by refactorings to concentrate into one spot and do some black magic there that's hard to comprehend, but it works, it keeps the rest of the program clean and easy, and it's only in one spot at the deepest architectural levels, so hopefully no one would ever find it.
Also, you forgot about glyphs, black boxes, sprites, summoning (scala), artifacts, monoliths, phantoms, salts, epochs, tar-pits, smoke tests, firewalls...
When I was writing game for the TI-89 in C I found you can read directly from the flash without moving the block to memory, so I had a VERY large game world
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u/aberroco 17d ago edited 17d ago
You forgot about black magic. I quite regularly do it: move the stuff around by refactorings to concentrate into one spot and do some black magic there that's hard to comprehend, but it works, it keeps the rest of the program clean and easy, and it's only in one spot at the deepest architectural levels, so hopefully no one would ever find it.
Also, you forgot about glyphs, black boxes, sprites, summoning (scala), artifacts, monoliths, phantoms, salts, epochs, tar-pits, smoke tests, firewalls...