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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 | 0

-	Fogchild1	1m
-	SmokePotion	2m	Right or wrong, I'm getting high.
-	Raven	16m	I lost myself, in the dark charade.
-	Visitor_Guest	16m	[Welcome to Sindome]
-	Rillem	3m	Make it personal.
-	Archangel212168	0s
-	Soltan	14m
-	freezeway3k	7s
-	Woeful	2m
-	Sulfurado	36m
-	Hivemind	13s
a	Mench	54m	Doing a bit of everything.
-	zxq	1m	Tools: https://ansicolortool.neocities.org
-	PsycoticCone	8m
-	xXShadowSlayerXx	46m
-	JanekSembilan	13s
-	Pladdicus	31s	uh
-	Fay	18m
-	hex	17s
-	Wulf	1m
-	Vanashis	1m
-	BlackSoul	7m
-	FluffyPuff	19m
And 30 more hiding and/or disguised

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