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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. gag me with a shift button by decora · · Score: 5, Informative

    i := find([ 1, 2, 3 ]): _ > r

    yeah. no. thanks but no thanks.

  2. Re:Dynamically Typed? by buchner.johannes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
  3. Re:Just what is needed! by RaceProUK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another programming language! Why do people keep reinventing the spoon?

    Which spoon? The soup spoon? Teaspoon? Tablespoon? Dessert spoon? Wooden spoon?

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