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

Posted by Soulskill on from the hello-world dept.

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."

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  1. Old timer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You've been programming for at least 20 years. That means you've started when things weren't buried behind seven layers of abstraction but had to be done by hand. In languages that didn't help you all that much, but didn't get in the way of letting you get things done either. So, like me, you've seen things those young whippersnappers wouldn't believe.

    Anyway, about perl, I've never seen why it got such a bad rap for excessive punctuation. The sigils on variables aren't that weird, even BASIC used them when I grew up. So you can use "weird things" like $_, well, you don't have to, if you don't feel like it.

    I'm make my living by programming and I've used a lot of languages, tools and frameworks. I've been around the block a few times. And let me tell all young'uns that when I program for fun, at home, I do it in perl. Because perl fits my mental model and the syntax is a warm blanket in a cold, cold world.