If you’re using vscode you might be able to look through the individual file histories to recover some work.

I have a bike I put together with this mindset and it’s pretty awesome. If any component dies I can replace it individually, even if it’s not made by the same company. No reason an electric car couldn’t have the same benefits except that the average consumer doesn’t care about planning ahead

I rented Superman 64 as a kid, never knowing it was a universally hated game. We had fun with the weird multiplayer mode where you fly around in weird pod things. I remember flying through the rings too. The whole game makes zero sense in hindsight.

I haven’t done much low level stuff, but I think the ‘main’ function is something the compiler uses to establish an entry point for the compiled binary. The name ‘main’ would not exist in the compiled binary at all, but the function itself would still exist. Executable formats aren’t all the same, so they’ll have different ways of determining where this entry point function is expected to be. You can ‘run’ a binary library file by invoking a function contained therein, which is how DLL files work.

Yeah, he was bamboozled as soon as he agreed to allow multiple separate files. The challenge was bs from the start, but he could have at least nailed it down with more explicit language and by forbidding any exceptions. I think it’s kind of ironic that the instructions for a challenge related to different representations of information failed themselves to actually convey the intended information.