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Jinx
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DreamBerd is a perfect programming language
Check out jinx https://jamesboer.github.io/Jinx/
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what is your CI/CD pipeline setup and how are you handling larger binaries? are smaller game dev studios just brute forcing through LFS and building for each test?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of automated tests where it makes sense. I wrote a scripting language that I use for my personal game projects, and I never would have been able to do it if it weren't for the battery of tests for every feature, error, and corner case I could think of. But games are rarely like other software, with hard rules about what is "correct" or "incorrect". And it would be a nightmare to try to keep up with designers, constantly tweaking and tuning, so what's "correct" is literally a day to day, constantly moving target.
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any modern procedural programming languages?
A second trial for you might be Jinx. Depending on your definition of procedural, Jinx is 100% only procedural. https://jamesboer.github.io/Jinx/
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Which phases/stages does your programming language use?
Jinx (embeddable scripting language) works as following:
- How do I create a file that will automatically compile and run my c++ program when I double click it?
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Is I already know C and OOP, do I basically already know C++?
Feel free to look at my own interpreter, written in modern C++. You're welcome to ask me if you have any questions.
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I'm curious what a gameplay programmer would use a scripting language for
I use my own scripting language more like content, especially for things like one-off events and behaviors. Example: scripting special behaviors for a boss fight, or a room with a unique trap in it, or any other sort of one-off behavior that would be overkill for C++, but too complex for most other types of data-driven content. These days, visual scripting also helps to fill in these gaps between content and procedure.
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What are the best free books for learning to write interpreters in C++?
You're welcome to look at my scripting language Jinx, written in modern C++. Just let me know if you have specific questions. Data flow is JxLexer.cpp -> JxParser.cpp -> JxScript.cpp. Most everything else is implementation details. Also, note the parer is pretty complex, mostly because Jinx has a crazily flexible syntax for functions.
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Design examples for runtime scripting
Feel free to look at Jinx if you want an example of what I consider a fairly easy-to-use and integrate scripting system. Obviously, I'm a bit biased since I wrote it.
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Is just UTF-8 support good enough?
If you're working in UTF-8 internally, you could just write your own UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion functions to convert strings at API boundaries. I did this in my scripting language because I didn't want to bring in dependencies.
Crafting Interpreters
- Crafting Interpreters
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The Top 10 GitHub Repositories Making Waves 🌊📊
Build an Interpreter (Chapter 14 on is written in C)
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Writing a Debugger from Scratch: Breakpoints
I’m guessing you’ll have to work with the scopes in the resolver:
https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/mast...
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loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
Better open an issue/request wiki edit at https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/wiki/Lox-implementations
- Gigachad Ken Thomson.
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Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language
I'm late to the party, but I want to say thank you for sharing this. It's inspiring to look at how much you've built and (hopefully) enjoyed the process of building! I'm loving everything -- your site, your language design, your docs, your builtin libraries, your dev tools. Beyond impressive. People like you are the ones who make HN one of my best places on the internet.
For context on where I'm coming from, about two weeks ago I picked up Crafting Interpreters [1] for fun. I'm finding your clear-yet-concise Compiler internals [2] to be particularly compelling reading, and jumping back and forth between those "how this all works" docs and the live example of this language you actually built do a WASM-compiled tree-blowing-in-the-wind animation is just... just wow. So freaking cool!
I also enjoyed reading the comment thread that inspired you to start on Yaksha and seeing how this project has a wholesome start as inspiration-by-programming-hero. I hope you recognize that a few years later you've now ascended from inspiree to inspirer. I also hope you're still having tons of fun building out Yaksha!
[1] https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
[2] https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html#compiler-int...
- Keeping track of returned and break-ed values between code blocks
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How do you start your own programming language?
There are books which will talk you through the process. Crafting Interpreters is highly spoken of; I used Writing an Interpreter in Go, because I like Go. Then there's Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (the "Dragon Book"). This is considered heavy, but a classic, it's been around since '86.
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Designing a new language
I cannot recommend Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom enough, it covers a lot of the stuff you need to know, completely for free.
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A roadmap to design programming languages
Crafting Interpreters is a fun primer on language design. It has a complete roadmap to build a fairly simple language, twice. There are some topics it won't touch on, like static type systems, but it provides a great introduction so that you can start tinkering and learn by doing.
What are some alternatives?
vigil - Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language
git-internals-pdf - PDF on Git Internals
funl - FunL programming language
You-Dont-Know-JS - A book series on JavaScript. @YDKJS on twitter.
RapidJSON - A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API
tinyrenderer - A brief computer graphics / rendering course
utf8.h - 📚 single header utf8 string functions for C and C++
paip-lisp - Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming"
langs
CppCoreGuidelines - The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++
zhetapi - A C++ ML and numerical analysis API, with an accompanying scripting language.
30-days-of-elixir - A walk through the Elixir language in 30 exercises.