wargus VS ChakraCore

Ah, that makes sense. If you're wanting to relive the glory days with some modern improvements, I wholeheartedly recommend the Wargus and DevilutionX replacement engines for Warcraft 2 and Diablo 1 (respectively). They bring those games up to more modern resolutions and methods of connectivity (for easy LANing with friends) and also add quite a few quality-of-life features that just make the games nicer to play on newer systems. And they both have Linux support, though I haven't tried them on the Deck yet. Note that you'll need the original game data files to play these, and they'll require a bit of work to set up.

In the case of Stratagus/Wargus (open source clone of Warcraft II), the AI at its top level has an ordered list of goals/commands, to give it a sensible progression and allow it to be tailored to specific scenarios while hiding a lot of complexity. Like here's the land attack script for random scenarios, and there's separate scripts for air and sea attacks. Specific campaigns also have their own scripts for each AI player like this one.

Changelog in 3.1.0: https://github.com/Wargus/wargus/blob/master/debian/changelog

I thought it would be a fun weird project to make Servo work with MS' abandoned JavaScript engine:

https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore

Of course it is written in C++ and you'd probably want a pure Rust browser. But it is sad seeing that fairly complete open source JIT JavaScript engine sit and rot.

The JS engine is open source: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore

ChakraCore

Not to forget the engine Charka: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore

The only bit of the old Edge that had its source emancipated. It was/is? quite performant.

As a Linux user, I very much think Microsoft should have continued Trident and Chakra. Apple also should have continued releasing Safari for Windows. Our web QA setup was entirely built around Macs back then, but it was great to be able to test sites with Safari on Windows, and to have another responsive browser on Win32.

Edge was initially using Chakra but has been rebuilt using Chromium and the V8 engine.

https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/wiki/Architecture-...

I've found the source code to be quite readable too - albeit from a bug-finding perspective, not a strictly pedagogical one.

Furthermore, the new architecture decouples the JavaScript interface from the engine, enabling the use of other JavaScript engines such as Hermes, V8, or Chakra.

ChakraCore

I am astonished at the omission of ChakraCore, open sourced by Microsoft but sadly abandoned by them after they switched Edge to Chromium: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore. But it looks like it’s still chugging along as a community effort rather than being completely abandoned.