Lobster, a New Game Programming Language, Now Available As Open Source

Aardappel writes "Lobster is a new programming language targeting game programming specifically, building on top of OpenGL, SDL 2 and FreeType. The language looks superficially similar to Python, but is its own blend of fun features. It's open source (ZLIB license) and available on GitHub."

Comments

Dynamically Typed?

[Wattos]

Dynamically Typed with Optional Typing

Thanks, but no thanks, I prefer to stay with statically types languages. I know that the "kewl" kids love dynamically types languages, but it becomes a horror for maintenance. Ill be sticking with UDK in the meantime

Re:Dynamically Typed?

[buchner.johannes]

It really depends what you are doing. For many projects, scripting with some OOP is good enough (all those web projects, RoR, etc.). Having short code in an expressive language leads to less bugs.

Static typing is extremely useful because it catches all mistakes of a certain class. However, other mistakes you still have to unit test for. So if you are unit&integration testing well, the benefit of static typing is small, and you are capturing more mistakes than static typing would.

For projects where you have contract-like, long-term stable interfaces/APIs, yes, use static typing. But don't pretend it's for every project.

"Fun features"?

[Viol8]

Languages don't have "fun" features, they either have useful features or bloat.

Looks like yet another me-too language that's someones pet project that will be forgotten about this time tommorow.

Re:gag me with a shift button

[fph il quozientatore]

Still looks like a step forward from Perl.

fuck me slashdot cant display unicode

[decora]

oh well