pokemon-showdown

Pokémon battle simulator.

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Pokémon battle simulator.

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2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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Zarel·May 16, 2021

I needed a way to embed arbitrary strings in URLs, as readably as possible. I thought "hey, isn't that what Punycode does?" It turns out, no: Punycode only works for embedding non-ASCII text in URLs, it does not turn ASCII into valid URLs. So I made my own encoding, and called it Dashycode: https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/blob/master/lib/D...

In Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

jtolmar·May 1, 2016

Pokemon Showdown's code quality impressed me when I looked at it: https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown It's not literally flawless (hard to find conceptual entry points, short on comments), but when you get to the massive piles of one-off special functions needed to simulate all of Pokemon's moves and abilities (e.g. https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown/blob/master/data/a... ) it's all much more succinct than I'd have expected. The file I linked expresses more "business logic" in 3300 lines than is contained in the entire 40kiloline codebases of some of the enterprise monstrosities I've worked on.

In Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?

Zarel·Jun 19, 2014

My project, Pokémon Showdown (https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown) uses tabs, although it's not for any religious reasons, it's just what I was used to when I created the project. I suggested changing to spaces when I learned they were more popular, but my most opinionated coder preferred tabs so I kept it at tabs. Tabs and spaces both have their respective advantages and disadvantages. Advantages of tabs: - you can choose your indentation width in most editors, so coders don't have to agree on indentation width (this is really the only major advantage) - most very-basic editors that can't be configured, such as Notepad or the command-line directly, will default to having the tab key insert a tab character, which is easier to press than space N times (it's rare to edit code in such cases, though) - slightly smaller file-size, althou

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gh this is pretty irrelevant in modern times Advantages of spaces: - certain editors are dumb and will mangle tabs in various ways (for instance, converting "3 tabs for indentation, 9 spaces for alignment" into 5 tabs and 1 space) - most file viewers that won't let you configure tab width (for instance, browsers, which is relevant to viewing code on GitHub) will have tab width set to 8 spaces, which is very awkward - avoids the problem of some people accidentally using tab for alignment and then having alignment be messed up when coders have different tab width settings - certain text fields, such as browser text boxes, will have the tab key focus the next input field instead of inserting a tab character, which makes inserting tab characters difficult sometimes (it's rare to edit code in such cases, though)

In Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only