I have a great performance optimization for this

What if instead of 1s sleep, we did 0.5s sleep? That’s a 100% improvement.

For anyone who controls time travel this is the fastest algorithm ever. Probably gonna change everything when we are traveling through space and passing by some dark holes.

Even as a joke, this doesn't avoid anything. The system scheduler just has to do the sorting using a regular algorithm

stay away from the edge cases and everything will be fine

Perfect, we'll just spin up an image of your machine in EC2, give it a public IP, set the default network rules to "allow any any" and we're good. And I have no idea why the security team just all quit.

That's why we invented docker! Instead of trying to fix, just copy your whole machine

"Automate the boring stuff with python" to start. As an added bonus you'll have more downtime as you go.

Start by using an existing engine like renpy to get flow and math. Then expand to other engines.

Learn rust for game dev, develop the game in rust, and then brag about how your game is written 100% in rust (nerds will be extremely impressed, for maximum clout release it under GPL V3 with native Linux support).

I would start (if you havent already) with an introduction to CS. You can take CS50 for free online - https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2025/.

I dont think they cover much C# (I took the 2020 course and they didnt) but they do introduce you to C, C++, Python, html, etc. They provide github codespaces available for anyone for free, so you can complete the weekly labs and problem sets offered in the course. It really is a good jumping off point.

Be sure to regularly defrag your C: drive or things might slow down.

Code looks more terrifying than it actually is

After learning the basics of a programming language, you could try using a game engine like Unity or Godot to not have to code a lot of more complicated things like displaying things and collisions

Find a different career choice!

Software development is all stress all the time and I don't know what the fuck I'm doing and I really don't think this much stress at 34 is healthy even with the salary

I know a bit of python and ruby, but doing something similar except I'm writing it in BASIC on a Commodore 64 and am going to attempt to refactor it assembly. I have most of the BASIC version working now.