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I recommend Python as a first language. Then move to Java or C#. C++ has a steep learning curve for new programmers. On the other hand, if you're here you are a DF player, so maybe you're ok with steep learning curves. But C++ is the Dwarf fortress of programming languages.

Now I do recommend C++ for games in general, but not when you're starting out. The reason is, of all popular high level languages, C++ has the greatest ability to optimize CPU bottlenecks, because it gives you more control over memory layout, especially compared to garbage collected languages. But starting out, optimising CPU bottlenecks is the least of your worries, and if you do run into them you can fix them by doing things a different way.

Quote from: Untrustedlife on March 16, 2016, 02:36:32 pm

its written in c++ with sdl, note c and c++ are different.

They're not that different. C++ is C with some extra helpful stuff. C code compiles in C++. Pass by reference and strings are nice.

Disagree. What constitutes good style in C and C++ is very different, making them very different languages. For example, in C it's common to write your own linked list. In C++ you should be using std::vector for most such cases. C is simpler than c++, but you don't have good support for vital features like generic containers and OOP. I don't recommend using C if you can avoid it.

If you think C++ is just a few features tacked on to C, you're probably not a good C++ developer.

Simply adding "cut any gem" "cut any glass" and "cut any rock" jobs in addition to specific would be welcome.

This. What makes gems annoying is that you have to queue up each jem type individually, and they quickly run out.

But yes making everything "auto" cabable would be good too.

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Set it up, or give the option to setup an Excel-like "freeze panes" setting. Meaning when scrolling either horizontally or vertically the first column and first row will always stay frozen in view.

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Again, I apologize if this is in and I'm being a dummy and can't figure it out. I'd appreciate any help there if true.

No such feature currently exists in DT. It may be possible though..

Thanks for the reply, at least I know I'm not missing anything (about that topic at least.)

Personally I think it's a good idea, I just don't know how difficult it would be to implement (ie. the widgets don't do that sort of thing out of the box)

You already do this for the column headers. Can't you do the same for the rows? Or is that a special out of the box widget?

Seems a bit gamey. I mean more realistic weather patterns might be good, instead of having rain fall sharply along biome boundaries. But this doesn't sound realistic.

Isn't it part of the fun that migrants can screw you over / be worthless / be thrown into magma? It's kind of a traditional thing now, and I could certainly see a clan having claim to a new venture. Including the expedition leader becoming hopelessly overwhelmed. It'd just be one unique mechanic less if that was to go away and everyone had to petition. Like, you could probably evade the vampire problem entirely if only petitioners got in. Feels a little less spicy to me!

You can go over your migrants when they enter now too, you just have to throw them into magma or isolation instead of denying their entry. Even with a mandatory group of migrants that you can't for some reason refuse, I feel that having them run up to the mayor to make a formal plea would be better.

It's possible that helms and crowns may conflict in 0.42, since people wear those now.

Toady has said that re-bundling the world to run at worldgen's level of abstraction isn't simple and not planned. However, advancing history at the calendar’s pace would be possible. Instead of advancing it for two weeks we could have more control.