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Jinx reviews and mentions

• DreamBerd is a perfect programming language
  3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 3 Jun 2023

  Check out jinx https://jamesboer.github.io/Jinx/

• what is your CI/CD pipeline setup and how are you handling larger binaries? are smaller game dev studios just brute forcing through LFS and building for each test?
  2 projects | /r/gamedev | 19 Feb 2023

  Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of automated tests where it makes sense. I wrote a scripting language that I use for my personal game projects, and I never would have been able to do it if it weren't for the battery of tests for every feature, error, and corner case I could think of. But games are rarely like other software, with hard rules about what is "correct" or "incorrect". And it would be a nightmare to try to keep up with designers, constantly tweaking and tuning, so what's "correct" is literally a day to day, constantly moving target.

• any modern procedural programming languages?
  2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 9 Feb 2023

  A second trial for you might be Jinx. Depending on your definition of procedural, Jinx is 100% only procedural. https://jamesboer.github.io/Jinx/

• Which phases/stages does your programming language use?
  5 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 5 Feb 2023

  Jinx (embeddable scripting language) works as following:

• How do I create a file that will automatically compile and run my c++ program when I double click it?
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 14 Jan 2023
• Is I already know C and OOP, do I basically already know C++?
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 3 Aug 2022

  Feel free to look at my own interpreter, written in modern C++. You're welcome to ask me if you have any questions.

• I'm curious what a gameplay programmer would use a scripting language for
  1 project | /r/gamedev | 24 Jul 2022

  I use my own scripting language more like content, especially for things like one-off events and behaviors. Example: scripting special behaviors for a boss fight, or a room with a unique trap in it, or any other sort of one-off behavior that would be overkill for C++, but too complex for most other types of data-driven content. These days, visual scripting also helps to fill in these gaps between content and procedure.

• What are the best free books for learning to write interpreters in C++?
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 8 Jul 2022

  You're welcome to look at my scripting language Jinx, written in modern C++. Just let me know if you have specific questions. Data flow is JxLexer.cpp -> JxParser.cpp -> JxScript.cpp. Most everything else is implementation details. Also, note the parer is pretty complex, mostly because Jinx has a crazily flexible syntax for functions.

• Design examples for runtime scripting
  1 project | /r/gameenginedevs | 3 Jul 2022

  Feel free to look at Jinx if you want an example of what I consider a fairly easy-to-use and integrate scripting system. Obviously, I'm a bit biased since I wrote it.

• Is just UTF-8 support good enough?
  3 projects | /r/cpp | 26 Jun 2022

  If you're working in UTF-8 internally, you could just write your own UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion functions to convert strings at API boundaries. I did this in my scripting language because I didn't want to bring in dependencies.

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