This seems like a missed opportunity after all these years.
Nobody's tried to go into the business of "verifying individual humans" and succeeded? Seems like that could and should be just a single facet of a very big online ID service.
Basically something like Oauth but for real ID, where you can approve/deny requests for variable amounts of identifying information.
It's not like all that information isn't floating around anyway. CreditKarma certainly knows enough about me to offer such a service.
I feel like with languages (in games or anything else), it all boils down to "where there's a will, there's a way". People come up with a lot of reasons Language X won't be suitable for a project, but in the end it's the people who use whatever tools are at hand, who get the job done while the perfectionists are stuck at the starting line. Classic Tortoise vs. Hare situation.
If you want to write games, use your favorite language, and just START. All limitations can be circumvented somehow.
Nobody's tried to go into the business of "verifying individual humans" and succeeded? Seems like that could and should be just a single facet of a very big online ID service.
Basically something like Oauth but for real ID, where you can approve/deny requests for variable amounts of identifying information.
It's not like all that information isn't floating around anyway. CreditKarma certainly knows enough about me to offer such a service.