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how does this apply to compiled languages though?


Recompile when config changes.


If you're going to do that, you don't need configuration at all. Just hardcode everything.


Yeah, and it is not really new either. ioquake3 did that, it had a header file for some values. If you changed them, you had to recompile the QVMs. So then we added cvars, and some values such as HP, DMG, etc. stayed in the header file. I learnt programming C by fiddling around with ioquake3 and its forks, Tremulous especially. Good times.




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