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It would be nice if Brlang had some kind of environment variables, for accessing things like the username of the currently logged in user. It shouldn't make things too complicated for players who don't have any IRL programming experience, either.

By Baguette at Nov 23, 2025, 4:15 PM | 1

The big ones are definitely just the current user and the current device ID. Given what commands are available I can't think of anything else that would be useful. Maybe most recent GridMail ID so you could delete it from within a program, but that would require a new command be added.

The only others I could think to add would be Current program name, heat value, number of program uses remaining. Those don't seem like they'd have much functional use though outside of logging.

By ikunaut at Nov 24, 2025, 10:02 AM | 0

I can see uses for things like current Grid heat, if conditional statements were added, but IIRC staff want to avoid adding those to keep from gatekeeping players with less programming experience.

By Baguette at Nov 24, 2025, 11:03 PM | 1

-	Burgerwolf	2m	PANCAKES
-	MrRedgrave	5m
-	Rillem	5m	Make it personal.
-	BlackSoul	11s
-	BeforeTheWhispers	5s
-	Terrible_the_duck	8m
-	whatislove	3s	reputation is whoever holds a bigger gun
-	Errant	22s
-	zxq	21m	Tools: https://ansicolortool.neocities.org
-	AntiqueBeast	3s
-	SmokePotion	1s	Right or wrong, I'm getting high.
-	MrFye	38s
-	fireflies	47s
And 18 more hiding and/or disguised

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Grid 4 Environment Variables For easier software creation!

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