hey is anyone here actually good at understanding other codebases?
hey is anyone here actually good at understanding other codebases?
NI wanna add shaders to stardust but the stereokit shader code is super complex and I don't have the working memory for it
グno i suck at:
- understanding that one language with macros (well i can understand basics ofc because its the same across most langs)
- understanding other codebases
グi have to read the thing like 50 times to get a basic understanding of whats going on
グahahah
Ngood news! it's c++
グlmao
グwell
グbad news
グi havent learned c++
Noof
グi really have to get to learn a programming language
グbut i also have to do Nebula
グso idk which one to choose
グgo on temp loa to learn that one language with macros or grind Nebula
グwait wait wait im gonna get a lawsuit
グNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
グive evaded the lawsuit
グ@Nova congratulate me
Nhaha good job
グlol ty
HChatGPT is actually pretty useful to try & understand codebases in languages you don't know very well. You can copy past a whole function & ask it to esplain step by step. It is able to infer what variables are for just by looking at their names & contextual use in the funtion, even if the variable declaration wasn't present in the prompt. I'm currently using ChatGPT to go through OpenXR sample code 
Nit doesn't know the context at all is the problem
IPlus feeding chatgpt the whole codebase will reach token history limits
MI've issues with chatGPT and codebases too. Though this is mostly on principle.
SGPT 3 sucks but GPT 4 is pretty usable for this kind of stuff
SIt's just about understanding the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations and applying it accordingly
SYou can actually have GPT models compress a segment of text in their own words or kinda allow them to landmark it
SChunk a massive portion of code and you can juice like 20x the token quantity out by having it preprocess it all into a single block of incomprehensible tokens
MSounds like what babel typically does to javascript.
MCompresses it down as much as possible so the file size is a fraction of its normal size.
MOk, let's see if I can get Stardust working again so that I might tinker with that idea I had the other day.
Nyay
N@missionz3r0 ping me if you need help
Mo7
MI barely know Rust, so will be a fun time for sure.
MA lot of today is gonna be me figuring out the basic stuff.
MLike, how to open an app in Stardust
Na 2D app?
MAnything tbh.
Nso far only wayland apps are supported, so just figure out what the wayland display is
MMy current goal is to get a spec to appear on the screen.
Na spec?
MLike a dot.
Nwhat do you mean?
MLike a dust mote.
Noh that's actually hard to do believe it or not
Nit's much easier to do lines or a 3D model
MYeah, I'm fine putting a low poly pyramid and yeeting it far enough away that it's just a speck.
Nwhy a speck?
Nohhh your constellations haha
