Jinx VS RapidJSON

Check out jinx https://jamesboer.github.io/Jinx/

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.

A second trial for you might be Jinx. Depending on your definition of procedural, Jinx is 100% only procedural. https://jamesboer.github.io/Jinx/

Jinx (embeddable scripting language) works as following:

Feel free to look at my own interpreter, written in modern C++. You're welcome to ask me if you have any questions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here's what I did: - I bought a theme that I liked, and used mstch as template engine (matched the theme's template format) - Imported rapidjson for parsing JSON, and used mstch for generating JSON (the JSON I generate is simple enough that I can do this) - Wrote an HTTP handler class for each page that handles the GET and POST requests, generating HTML or JSON depending on the request

And documentation in most cases is more user-friendly if you will use something like MkDocs(based on Markdown), example http://rapidjson.org/

Use RapidJSON https://rapidjson.org/

It seems not super widely used compared to other famous libraries like RapidJSON, nlohmann-json, or simdjson. But it seems the author is very active in developing this project which can mitigate this "lack of community" issue.

have a look at rapidjson for a a nice simple json framework https://rapidjson.org/ I use it and it's quite fast and as good as anything I used in python.

So I just cloned https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson to see what is the current status. At compile time they check if the C++ compiler supports the "noexcept" keyword, and if so they define RAPIDJSON_NOEXCEPT to be "noexcept". Throughout the implementation, RAPIDJSON_NOEXCEPT is added to quite a few function declarations (about a hundred of them).

RapidJSON is also excellent, like fantastic when performance matters. Not sure there's a much faster JSON implementation anywhere, and I've written my own SAX-style parser as a fun, hobby project for C++.