lobster

I've already been improving Lobster's speed a lot in recent times: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/tests/compa... Self-hosting would be cool too, but for both Lobster and Goose I've tried to keep it simple for people to build the language in any environment, which is why its still all in C++. I don't use any "skills". From what I can see, the #1 way an AI produces "good code" is to simply work in the context of existing good code. I don't need to hold it by a style guide, it seems to infer that from context just fine. At least Fable does, other models less so.

You'd prefer something more like Rust traits or Haskell Type Classes? I admit this was mostly out of simplicity/convenience/familiarity. If you're a Rust person, you'll appreciate that Lobster lets you use similar exhaustive switches to Rust's enum instead: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/tests/types...

Very cool - the post made me want to play the game, and check out lobster, but didn't link to it - lobster is open source: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster. It doesn't look like the voxel engine is, though, which is a bummer. On reflection, I'm guessing that game is built for mods, so that would be a path to getting to play with the engine side.

https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/samples/lob... It brings the joy back to graphics and game programming.

The actual game itself, yes. Based on this open source project though which provides the language its written in and core engine tech: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster

I'm surprised the author didn't mention the Lobster programming language when evaluating a successor language: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster The language seems to be exactly what he was looking for - a high-performance high-level language specifically designed for video games.

I found the contrast between zero known published game and the claims of iOS and android targets for a 10 year old language to be... interesting. But you can see some more for yourself, including screen shots of the author's unreleased game: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/issues/136 I think what lobster really needs at this point is a page that prominently displays better examples of possible and real end-products somewhere. raylib example: https://itch.io/games/made-with-raylib

Regarding the "Kingdom of Nouns", I always thought Lobster[0][1] had a really cute idea: x(a, b, c) and a.x(b,c) are equivalent. Don't know if that is original to the language, but it's where I saw it first. It only really makes sense with the other features of the language, though. (Also, I just discovered that it now targets WASM. Maybe I should give it another go!) [0] http://strlen.com/lobster/ [1] https://github.com/aardappel/lobster

Shameless plug: Kit (https://www.kitlang.org), a statically typed language with no runtime, can interface with C without bindings (by directly including C headers.) Kit includes features such as traits, term rewriting, algebraic data types and procedural macros, which make it more expressive than C without all the boilerplate. Zig (https://ziglang.org) and Lobster (https://github.com/aardappel/lobster) are also pretty interesting!

Weird, those links work fine for me. I guess I'll have to change them, though not sure what to.. annoying github doesn't have a way to view markdown pages. I guess for now, to read the docs online you could read the raw markdown here: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/tree/master/lobster/doc... Better yet, just download the repo and read the html files in docs/

There are some releases which come with pre-built exes for e.g Windows: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/releases I'd highly recommend you build it yourself though, which can be done rather easily with VS (2019) on Windows or CMake on Linux. On Windows just press build in release mode and you're done. More notes here: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent... Then cd lobster && lobster samples/pythtree.lobster for example should run something. Or see here how to use from command line or from your fav editor: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aardappel/l...

This looks really fun: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/lobster/sam... Are the generators implemented entirely in user space using continuation passing style? And the coroutine function turns it into something pausable? Edit: I can't wrap my head around how return returns out of all the generators

The site says it compiles to bytecode and C++ source. Looking at recent commits, there's some non-functional WASM support: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/commit/5b89bacd1b1d1e63...

Same program in Lobster (a Python-alike statically typed language with built-in graphics): https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/lobster/sam...