glsp VS libtcod-vcpkg-template

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I almost used https://gamelisp.rs/ for a project but the nightly feature it needs broke and it's no longer maintained, glad to see something similar arise!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:

It doesn't teach on its own, but the libtcod-vcpkg-template can help with quickly setting up Vcpkg and libtcod in a cross-platform manner. Parts might need to be updated to work with C++20 or later. This template also creates Emscripten builds.

Hello all. I'm trying to get the libtcod example project to compile, but seem to be running into errors at every step. When I compile normally and run the binary, I get the error:

I've just checked, and Visual Studio can build/run the libtcod template. So if you setup a CMakeLists.txt to use Vcpkg then your project should run even without VSCode's CMake Tools plugin.

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I'm working in C++17 and doing the ancient C++ tutorial on RogueBasin. I'm starting from the libtcod C++ template and plan on using the latest libtcod features rather than the older ones taught by that tutorial. My new repository is here.

Libtcod's Vcpkg template could work for your conditions. The tools it uses are cross-platform, using VSCode as the IDE rather than Visual Studio, but running CMake manually should work also.

I've made this template project, but I've since modified it so that I can use it to develop libtcod with, so right now it only uses Vcpkg to fetch the dependencies for libtcod and then builds libtcod from a submodule. This template is complete as-is and will compile and run if you follow the instructions.

I've updated the C++ template project to upload build artifacts (listed as automated-builds in any passing workflow.) It also automatically publishes builds as GitHub Releases when you push an annotated tag to the repository. I added one of the libtcod fonts too so that it's clear how to handle data assets in a project.

The GitHub releases don't include a Linux binary, you'll have to compile it yourself. The easiest way is to use the template project which is cross-platform.

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