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The Playground SDK had over a hundred titles shipped on it. You can see some of them on my MobyGames profile. [1] "Proper use of byte code generators" -- at th
by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
The Playground SDK had over a hundred titles shipped on it. You can see some of them on my MobyGames profile. [1]
"Proper use of byte code generators" -- at that point you're not writing Lua any more, any more than Scala or Clojure targeting the JVM is "writing Java." The article is about using Lua for AI, which is what my comments are about, and my comments all stand.
Arguing about whether the VM is good enough to support a state machine is orthogonal to whether it's a good idea to use Lua coroutines as suggested by the article.
[1] http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,13230/ http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,13...