Yuescript VS TIC-80

I'm a big fan of moonscript, but occasionally wish it was still be improved and worked on. Yuescript¹ looks like it fixes most of my bugbears with moonscript, and it is largely a faster² drop-in replacement.

There was s little discussion here ~18 months ago³, but it will largely circular if you look as people are suggesting fennel there ;)

¹ https://github.com/pigpigyyy/Yuescript

² This probably only matters if you have tonnes of moonscript, not just a little neovim/mpv/awesomewm config or something.

³ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903133

There's also some languages made to compile straight to Lua: - MoonScript is the most popular Lua wrapper - it's built to be more Python-like, featuring indentation-based scopes, function calls without parentheses, lambda syntax, list comprehension, and much more. - Yuescript is a modern update to MoonScript that adds more features (I haven't used it myself, so I'm not entirely sure exactly how it differs from MS). - Teal is a version of Lua that adds static typing for better code standards.

Yes, this is unfortunately true.

There's a spiritual successor: https://yuescript.org/

Yuescript in yellow

What I didn't know about is that its fork YueScript is actively maintained, and with some extra features.

I've put together a Lua config with Neovim, but it was still kind of obnoxious to put together. Lua isn't that great of a language, because people seem to forget it's an embed-able language for a reason (it's not supposed to give you tons of features). Using something that makes some of your more complex problems easier like Moonscript or Yuescript can make things more complex in regards to your configuration.

Or the more free TIC-80. I have paid for both, but never used either enough to be able to say one or the other has any significant advantages.

https://tic80.com/

I wish the community moved to an open source option like TIC-80[0].

0. https://tic80.com/

Main differences are: 16:9 aspect ratio, no cpu limits and many languages to tinker with: lua, js, squirrel, wren, janet, wasm, ... and just recently - a Python support was added.

https://tic80.com

Included native builds for windows, mac, linux, html, and also TIC-80's .PNG, .TIC and .LUA formats. Try out the web version here - https://tic80.com/play?cart=3424 See the TIC-80 wiki for instructions on exporting https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/ - TIC-80 website (for running .lua .png or .tic files) as well as TIC-80 documentation.

Try https://tic80.com/ instead of PICO-8, it's a free open-source alternative and still fun.

Tho personally I've come to prefer making my games in https://love2d.org and https://tic80.com