Comment by merlinsbrain
7 years ago
I was wondering about the interesting choice of an obscure language as the first language to roll out with luxe, but it seems really interesting [1]
I am definitely biased once I realized the primary author of the language (Wren) is Bob Nystrom, someone with professional experience in both game and language development [2]
[1] http://wren.io/
Unrelated to Wren, but I felt that Bob's book "Game Programming Patterns" ([1] and a free web version [2]) was excellent, and a very down to earth treatment of the topic. All of the examples were relevant and pretty hard hitting.
I know patterns (especially "design patterns") have become a bit of a swear-word, something which hints at severe engineering malpractices, especially along the lines of introducing unnecessary complexity for seemingly its own sake. I think that view oversimplifies the topic greatly, so hopefully people don't dismiss it at face value.
[1] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ [2] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html
GPP was great. Plus, Bob's new book is about writing interpreters!
http://craftinginterpreters.com/
Ah cool, thanks for the link.
It sounds like it may actually come in handy - I've ended up creating a number of solutions which came pretty close to being fully fledged domain specific languages. Sadly, despite nominally passing a CS compilers course about 20 years ago, my implementations have been horrifically incorrect. Maybe it's time to refresh my memory of how to actually do this.
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The dev logs typically go into detail on the decisions I make, for the decision on wren see https://luxeengine.com/dev-log-5/ .
Nice, I really like this!
thanks :)
Looks like a neat little language. Lua's syntax always appeared ugly to me - or if not ugly, then unnecessarily foreign. Something more Javascript-like lowers that barrier a good bit.
Doing source transformation "transpiling" from something more Javascript like to Lua has always been trivial.
Not that Lua is ugly (subjective), I find it as something Javascript should have always been.