OT: Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

[Bruce Carneal]

On Monday, 29 April 2024 at 10:15:46 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> On Monday, 29 April 2024 at 08:12:22 UTC, Monkyyy wrote:
>> On Monday, 29 April 2024 at 03:51:09 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
>>>
>>> If they're silent how do you know they failed?
>>
>> Because you get to debug a silent runtime error all the time, 
>> and at this point I just assume it's a float being nan
>>
>> I'm pretty sure this is just the gpus reaction to nan, draw 
>> calls being ignored
>
> Yep, rule #1 for me, when see extern C/C++ type/function - 
> always add zero initializer for float/float arrays.
>
> Very few libraries handle nans correctly from my limited 
> experience.

If you live in a world where no one checks for NaN at any point 
at any time and/or where a default zero will never hide an error 
then yep, you're gonna dislike NaN init.