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I had two ideas for Typescript in mind:
1. provide type declarations for the Window.js APIs, and
2. integrate with the Typescript compiler during development (e.g. F5 to reload, run typescript sources "directly", show compiler errors in the console / main window, etc.)
I've just started these discussion on GitHub, please share your thoughts:
https://github.com/windowjs/windowjs/discussions/27
https://github.com/windowjs/windowjs/discussions/28
Does this cover what you had in mind? Are there better ways to support Typescript?
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
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
The best place to start for you is https://github.com/microsoft/windows-samples-rs