u/DanielZaidanin r/programming • Recommends
On “Full Source Code Walkthrough of a Steam Game”
There actually is!
Check out this video: [video (Jonathan Blow arguing for this with citations from John Carmack and Mike Acton)
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A Programming Language for Games, talk #2
Jonathan Blow
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- Recommended by 2 people: 2 in engineering communities.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2015 to 2019.
- Presented by Jonathan Blow, game designer and programmer
- May be out of date. Uploaded 12 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Advanced. Deep dive for people who know the field.
121K views12 years ago2 recommendations
Programming languagesGame developmentLanguage design and type systemsGame programmingC++
Jonathan Blow discusses the design of a new programming language for game development, focusing on performance, simplicity, and data-oriented design.
Second talk on designing a programming language for games. Given on September 25, 2014. The first talk in this series is here: youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ This talk quotes from an email by John Carmack that is reproduced here in full: number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html Casey Muratori's essay on Semantic Compression: mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0019.html Mike Acton's cppcon keynote is here: youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHcWhy it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended for its insights into language design for games, featuring perspectives from John Carmack and Mike Acton.
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u/-PopeOfNope-in r/programming • Recommends
On “A Note about Programming Language Design”
This article is three years old. If you want something more recent and more thorough, look at these two videos [1] [2] he made almost a year ago now. Over the last 11 months, he's put his money where his mouth is and has been creating his C++ alternative specifically for making AAA video games and chronicling every decision he's made via youtube video. Whatever you think of the man (I'm not a fan), he's doing some damned fine work.
u/fresheneeszin r/ProgrammingLanguages • Mentions
On “Does your language support freestanding block statements?”
This is the video I was talking about. Here's an example (in Lima syntax):
f = fn x y z:
int num = y.length + z.reds
; Lots
; of
; code.
var result = with x num: ; Lima's equivalent of a capture block.
ret (x.a + num) * x.c
; More
; lots of
; code.
return something