ArcadeMaker

t variables, and from then on (it's been a year now), I just kept improving it. At one point, I had previously written some code for coloring C# code (red strings, green comments, purple numbers...), so I just copy-pasted it into my new language project and hop - I had a lexer. Basically, the way it works is that I have `interface IOperation { void Make(); }` and `interface IReadingOperation { IValue Read(); }`, and every statement or expression gets parsed into an instance of one of these interfaces. For example, I have `class VariableDeclarationOperation(Variable v, IValue initVal) : IOperation {...}`, and when the user writes `var a = 0`, it gets parsed into an instance of this `VariableDeclarationOperation` class. Then I just iterate over these instances and execute them. Now it really looks like a real language. I use it as the scripting language for my game engine, and it's actually running simple games! It has functions, classes, attributes... and everything uses my own syntax and all. So yeah, I discover weird bugs all the time, but it works well enough to power some cool arcade games. And I've done A LOT of performance work to get it to this point. Everything is fully open source! Just wanted to share it here :)

containing code and just does what it says.” Somehow, I made it work. In the beginning, running an empty loop counting to 1M took 7 seconds. After a lot of performance work and rebuilding parts of the system, the same machine can now run a 30M loop in 2–3 seconds. Pretty nice improvement. The language itself is a bit unusual, and I want to share one small feature I really like: loop counters. foreach item in ['a', 'b', 'c'] : counter c { println(c + ": " + item) } // Output: // 0: a // 1: b // 2: c Not a complicated feature, but pretty useful. Here's a YouTube video showing me using the engine to build a little game Anyway, these days I barely have time to work on the project, so I decided to open-source it. I’m hoping people here will find it interesting and help turn it into something real. I'm looking for contributors! I know there are tons of AI-generated projects being shared these days, so please, please, take a quick look at the code before assuming this is one of them. I promise it's pretty obvious that it was written by a human. Any feedback is welcome.