I had some good times with pico8! Made a couple of games with it. Quite a few of my buddies are into it, I haven't fully had the need for it so far, but it is quite enticing indeed. I was planning on building some with fennel-lang.org this summer on my sabbatical, but of course many other things were interesting too.
It felt very "javascript"-y, in the sense that the prototypal inheritance and the coroutines allow you to experiment with a lot of different programming styles/patterns without feeling friction.
I heard great things about the JIT but never looked closely into it.
Yep, it shares a lot of features with JavaScript, but between coroutines, TCE and the more powerful tables compared to JS objects make it better suited, in my opinion, for just playing around with some cool FP concepts.
The landscape of languages that compile to Lua is also quite interesting; there's at least two lisp dialects (urn and fennel), a coffee-script-like with two different dialects (moonscript and yuescript) and even an ML-like (amulet)
My current "language I want to make some money with so I can call myself a pro" is rust, which I finally picked up after being turned off of it for a while. It's really a solid improvement over C++ in the bare-metal / embedded space. After that, Lua is high on the list (or retirement, hopefully :). Any resources you particularly enjoy?
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I have a feeling you might enjoy Lua 😅
I had some good times with pico8! Made a couple of games with it. Quite a few of my buddies are into it, I haven't fully had the need for it so far, but it is quite enticing indeed. I was planning on building some with fennel-lang.org this summer on my sabbatical, but of course many other things were interesting too.
The problem with gamedev is that your code turns to garbage super quickly. And sadly coroutines are quite expensive on pico8, if i remember correctly:
github.com/wesen/carts/tree/master...
It felt very "javascript"-y, in the sense that the prototypal inheritance and the coroutines allow you to experiment with a lot of different programming styles/patterns without feeling friction.
I heard great things about the JIT but never looked closely into it.
Yep, it shares a lot of features with JavaScript, but between coroutines, TCE and the more powerful tables compared to JS objects make it better suited, in my opinion, for just playing around with some cool FP concepts.
The landscape of languages that compile to Lua is also quite interesting; there's at least two lisp dialects (urn and fennel), a coffee-script-like with two different dialects (moonscript and yuescript) and even an ML-like (amulet)
My current "language I want to make some money with so I can call myself a pro" is rust, which I finally picked up after being turned off of it for a while. It's really a solid improvement over C++ in the bare-metal / embedded space. After that, Lua is high on the list (or retirement, hopefully :). Any resources you particularly enjoy?