Tech Goals 2024

Here are my technology and language goals for 2024. You can find my 2023 reflections here.

Continue Using/Learning

• Bevy (goal: Jam quality game)
• Rust (goal: Finish project, or work related)
• C++ (goal: Learn some STL, maybe complete some Leetcode problems)
• Godot (content to make jam games)

Stop Using

• Perforce
• Lua (within reason)

Start Using/Learning

• In person meetups
• Godot C#
• Unreal Engine Verse
• Lisp

Results

• I quit my job as a VR developer, which mercifully freed me from Perforce!
• I messed around with Bevy some more (still no games though)
• At my new job, I’ve been writing many thousands of lines of pure C++ 17, with the STL.
• I’ve joined the monthly gamedev meetup in my area, and participated in-person at Global Game Jam.
• I stepped back from Sapiens modding to a large degree, so the quantity of Lua was more manageable

Notably Missing

• Lisp, Verse, and Godot C#

Carry-over Goals from 2023

• Wrote most of a Cascadia clone in Godot, using various techniques for the multiplayer aspect. Great learning project!