#tetris

#tetris

A real Tetris loop has time (ticks), concurrent inputs (keystrokes), state transitions (collision, locking, line clears), and non-determinism (piece generation). In many imperative designs, these concerns end up tangled in shared mutable state, which tends to produce bugs that are: hard to reproduce (timing-dependent), hard to test (logic mixed with effects), hard to debug (replay isn't deterministic).

This, says Alexey Pajitnov, while holding a scrambled Rubik's Cube, is my favorite puzzle. But I also think it's simply one of the best things humanity has ever invented. If we could only send 10 things into space, this should be one of them. Standing beside Pajitnov who revolutionized the digital world when he created Tetris, the best-selling video game of all time is the cube's creator, Erno Rubik, smiling widely.

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