glsp VS bracket-lib

3. Typed Racket

I almost used https://gamelisp.rs/ for a project but the nightly feature it needs broke and it's no longer maintained, glad to see something similar arise! You might want to consider adopting their choice of VecDeque as a list replacement, I think it makes a lot more sense than naive linked lists on modern machines.

Varied employment history has left me with great soft skills and a broad grab-bag of technical skills, mostly leaning towards high-performance systems programming. Major solo projects have included the scripting language GameLisp, a 2D game engine, and a novel computer vision library.

"Gamelisp is a scripting language for Rust game development." Feature list from the page: No garbage collection pauses (runs gc once per frame), Seamless Rust API, Memory-safe, Feature-rich ("Pattern‑matching, iterators, coroutines, macros..."), Easy entity scripting.

I'm using Rust to build a host program, and the actual game logic written in GameLisp on top of the bracket-lib. I only have superficial knowledge of Rust, 0 lisp experience, and never embedded a language before, so that's a lot to learn and implement at the same time.

I'm not sure I'll go to the end of the 8 weeks, but I'll make that as fun/interesting as possible and (try to) use GameLisp!

I feel qualified to answer this! GameLisp was once implemented with highly unsafe code, but later on I reimplemented it using only safe code, with a very small amount of optional unsafety behind a feature flag. GameLisp's performance is currently somewhere between Lua and Python when unsafe code is switched on, or a bit slower than Python when unsafe code is switched off.

It took a lot of wrestling with the type system, but I've managed to wring out several API improvements for version 0.2. I already considered GameLisp's Rust API to be best-in-class, and this release polishes it even further:

I think having to use a terminal is the scary part for many people. rltk/bracket-lib can be used to get a similar look and feel if that's what's important, but it is geared toward roguelikes.

Maybe bracket-lib from the amethyst authors? I‘m currently working through that book and find the library quite intuitive and simple to use. It started out as a toolkit for rouge-like games but has been getting more general. On that note, I recommend the hands-on-rust book which teaches rust concepts while building games with bracket-lib. As you have read the book, I‘m sure you would get through the first chapters quickly.

https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib has a great integration with Bevy, designed for exactly this sort of thing.

I've been doing some experiments with terminal based games and landed on https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib It's not exactly terminal based in the sense that it actually runs on OpenGL by default. But that's a plus imho because dealing with the bits of the terminal window that can change outside of your control (like fonts, window resize, etc) is a giant pita. It does let you swap the backend to run on crossterm if that's what you really want to do but if what you're after is the aesthetic like I am having bracket_lib handling all that makes life so much better.

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