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squirrel
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if you woke up and had to live a life nirn tomorrow (think outlander).. what would be your theory on what earth was in TES universe?
Not that hard, actually: http://www.squirrel-lang.org/
- A very interesting error I just had...
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Squirrel
I just downloaded it last night I learned on Lua and it's still my favorite language this is kinda based on it from.what I've read anyone try it yet any anythingjust in case y'all think I'm crazy there's the link to there home page I'm not playing with roadkill calling it programming or training squirrels or at least that's not what this is about
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LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences
A question: would it be too much work to port Love2D to a different embedding language? (I'm currently having looks at Squirrel (http://www.squirrel-lang.org/) I always thought Lua was tightly coupled with the framework, but what you've mentioned seems to imply that's not the case.
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What language(s) pair well with Rust (learning, using, etc.)? Also, what other languages did you learn before learning Rust?
The second one that comes to mind is Squirrel, which is a compiled language designed to be embedded into other programs. It’s similar to lua in concept, but closer to C in syntax. I never did a lot with it, but I did learn it.
TypeScriptToLua
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Lang Lua
I've had some success with https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua
Luau may be an alternative as well, haven't tried it.
I love Lua, but at larger scales it's unmanageable.
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Are there any 3rd party libraries which enables us to write nvim plugins?
There are some plugins (typescript.nvim) that use a Typescript to lua transpiler (TypescriptToLua]
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Since my driver video was well received last time, here is another: Building an SD Card driver from scratch
54:28 reminded me of TypeScriptToLua, so if you wanted to, then you could turn this into Lua :^)
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Window.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime for desktop graphics programming
One immediate comparison that springs to my mind is the Löve 2D engine [1], which is a tiny game engine written entirely around Lua scripting (so that Lua includes the full game run loop as well).
Lua is a good scripting language, but it doesn't have the ubiquity of JS (and Löve doesn't have the ubiquitous deployment of the modern browser). Also, Lua doesn't have a static type ecosystem (though there are interesting projects like TypescriptToLua [2] exploring that space, but you can from the name they are following/lagging the JS ecosystem here).
There probably is a need to package more browser games as "real" games and a lightweight Canvas-focused approach could find a nice like Löve, especially if it were easier, for instance, to maybe port to consoles for small/indie game teams than one of the web views or Electron. (Though certainly Microsoft already has a version of WebView2 running on the Xbox.)
[1] https://love2d.org/
[2] https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua
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Your favorite mod just added something you've wanted for years. What is it?
Not part of the mods, but using https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua is quite easy and works surprisingly well. You can find some of the type definitions for computercraft here: https://github.com/Eforen/cc-tweaked-types/tree/master/declarations
- TypeScript to Lua Transpiler
- LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences
- Neovim v0.5
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Forking the typescript compiler and building on it?
It might be helpful to keep in mind: Typescript is a compiler that parses a Typescript AST and prints out whatever you want. So if your goal is to use it in a JS context, the only thing regulating what you do with it is that it outputs valid JS that can be interpreted by the various JS engines. There are projects like TypeScriptToLua which uses the TS compiler to print out Lua code.
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How can I generate types using AST?
You can take a look at TypescriptToLua which transforms the TS AST into Lua code using the compiler API, however I think you're barking up the wrong tree. The TS compiler works on *it's own\* AST generated from parsed Typescript. You can see how they implement your own type here. What you have some structured data and want to turn it into a type definition. That's just some loops you write yourself over data you've hopefully structured in a sane way. Turn it into a string, write it to a file with the extension `.d.ts`. No libraries needed.
What are some alternatives?
ChaiScript - Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++
moonscript - :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua
Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint
lua-languages - Languages that compile to Lua
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
love - LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.
The MOAI Multi-platform Game Engine - This is the development repo of Moai SDK.
neovim-ui - Vaporware -- nothing to see here
Torque3D - MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames
TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
Banshee Engine
ttypescript - Over TypeScript tool to use custom transformers in the tsconfig.json