There's this ongoing open source game framework by Ikey. I knew him to be a diehard C guru (from the Solus Project) but is now rocking D, hence Serpent.

Check is out and support if you can, please.

I don't know how he does it but Ikey can code stuff like crazy.

https://lispysnake.com/blog/2020/02/02/the-slippery-serpent/

On 2/27/20 5:29 PM, aberba wrote:
> There's this ongoing open source game framework by Ikey. I knew him to be a diehard C guru (from the Solus Project) but is now rocking D, hence Serpent.
> 
> Check is out and support if you can, please.
> 
> I don't know how he does it but Ikey can code stuff like crazy.
> 
> https://lispysnake.com/blog/2020/02/02/the-slippery-serpent/

Nice! have to update my ldc installation to try it out, but I'd love to see them at dconf (their address is in London).

-Steve

On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 23:10:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 2/27/20 5:29 PM, aberba wrote:
>> There's this ongoing open source game framework by Ikey. I knew him to be a diehard C guru (from the Solus Project) but is now rocking D, hence Serpent.
>> 
>> Check is out and support if you can, please.
>> 
>> I don't know how he does it but Ikey can code stuff like crazy.
>> 
>> https://lispysnake.com/blog/2020/02/02/the-slippery-serpent/
>
> Nice! have to update my ldc installation to try it out, but I'd love to see them at dconf (their address is in London).
>
> -Steve

Already asking him on Twitter.

On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 22:29:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
> There's this ongoing open source game framework by Ikey. I knew him to be a diehard C guru (from the Solus Project) but is now rocking D, hence Serpent.
>
> [...]

Ikey did an interview with Foss and he said something about why he uses D. It's interested and funny as well.

>Having done a lot of Go development, I started researching alternatives to C that were concurrency-aware, string-sane, and packed with a powerful cross-platform standard library. This is the part where everyone will automatically tell you to use Rust.

> Unfortunately, I’m too stupid to use Rust because the syntax literally offends my eyes. I don’t get it, and I never will. Rust is a fantastic language and as academic endeavours go, highly successful. Unfortunately, I’m too practically minded and seek comfort in C-style languages, having lived in that world too long. So, D was the best candidate to tick all the boxes, whilst having C & C++ interoptability.

Pew! Pew!! Nailed it.

https://itsfoss.com/ikey-doherty-serpent-interview/

On Saturday, 29 February 2020 at 07:18:26 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 22:29:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> There's this ongoing open source game framework by Ikey. I knew him to be a diehard C guru (from the Solus Project) but is now rocking D, hence Serpent.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Ikey did an interview with Foss and he said something about why he uses D. It's interested and funny as well.
>
>>Having done a lot of Go development, I started researching alternatives to C that were concurrency-aware, string-sane, and packed with a powerful cross-platform standard library. This is the part where everyone will automatically tell you to use Rust.
>
>> Unfortunately, I’m too stupid to use Rust because the syntax literally offends my eyes. I don’t get it, and I never will. Rust is a fantastic language and as academic endeavours go, highly successful. Unfortunately, I’m too practically minded and seek comfort in C-style languages, having lived in that world too long. So, D was the best candidate to tick all the boxes, whilst having C & C++ interoptability.
>
> Pew! Pew!! Nailed it.
>
> https://itsfoss.com/ikey-doherty-serpent-interview/

from the article

Unfortunately, I’m too stupid to use Rust because the syntax literally offends my eyes. I don’t get it, and I never will. Rust is a fantastic language and as academic endeavours go, highly successful. Unfortunately, I’m too practically minded and seek comfort in C-style languages, having lived in that world too long. So, D was the best candidate to tick all the boxes, whilst having C & C++ interoptability.


That's exactly my sentiment too.

On Saturday, 29 February 2020 at 13:14:47 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:

> Unfortunately, I’m too stupid to use Rust

I would add to this that I am also lazy ;) And my observation is that 95% of programmers won't use voluntarily any language requiring manual memory management. Doing SW development with GC is a blessing. Of course, allowing manual memory management as opt-in feature is a requirement for system programming (my domain). And D wins here both with Rust(no GC) and Go (only GC).

Cheers,
Piotrek

On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 22:29:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Pew! Pew!! Nailed it.
>
> https://itsfoss.com/ikey-doherty-serpent-interview/

Thank you for sharing.

Cheers,
Piotrek

On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 22:29:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
> There's this ongoing open source game framework by Ikey. I knew him to be a diehard C guru (from the Solus Project) but is now rocking D, hence Serpent.
>
> Check is out and support if you can, please.
>
> I don't know how he does it but Ikey can code stuff like crazy.
>
> https://lispysnake.com/blog/2020/02/02/the-slippery-serpent/

Maybe we should add this project to our CI infrastructure.

On Saturday, 29 February 2020 at 13:14:47 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:

> Unfortunately, I’m too stupid to use Rust because the syntax literally offends my eyes. I don’t get it, and I never will. Rust is a fantastic language and as academic endeavours go, highly successful. Unfortunately, I’m too practically minded and seek comfort in C-style languages, having lived in that world too long. So, D was the best candidate to tick all the boxes, whilst having C & C++ interoptability.
>
>
> That's exactly my sentiment too.

I'll third that... or fourth it... or hundred-and-sixty-zillionth it.