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Programming Leftovers
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Games
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Chris ☛ Lessons From Creating My First Text Adventure
When I write about the greatness of text adventures, I pretend they are easy to make. They are, compared to many other types of games, but it’s still a bit of a lie. They’re hard to make.
I made one and submitted it to ParserComp 2025, and here’s what I learned.
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Python
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The New Stack ☛ Python Indexing vs. For Loops: What’s Really Faster?
Two common ways to iterate over data in Python are for loops and looping with indexing. for loops process each item in a sequence, one by one. Use a loop in combination with Python’s indexing system to access both the position and the value of each element.
Both approaches can get you to the same result in many cases. But the reasons you might choose one over the other, as well as how they operate under the hood and impact application performance at scale, are quite different.
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Rust
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Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 607
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust!
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