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I’ve wondered, why are these types of games, such as Screeps or WarriorJS only ever made to be played with JS. Why not Python or Go or Assembly?

by piqalq 8y ago

setr 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War Probably because if it's going to be in the browser, they have to do a large chunk of the work in JS anyways and of course, everything is JS these days
kroltan 8y ago
There are many polyglot "code games". Off the top of my head: http://codingame.com/ http://codingame.com/ - They support a lot of languages, even Rust! I also remember an old Java application where you would write AIs for dueling bots, but I don't recall the name. The folks at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ also host several games like that, more often than not competitively, however, and not open-ended or "singleplayer" games. Most accept any language that can take stdin and print stdout.
- pkkm 8y ago
  > I also remember an old Java application where you would write AIs for dueling bots, but I don't recall the name. Sounds like Robocode.
- brute 8y ago
  You are probably thinking of http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ I played this like 17 years ago and to my most pleasant surprise, the project is still alive.
aeorgnoieang 8y ago
This one's based on [ruby-warrior](https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior). I'm sure there are other ports for other languages too. I'm pretty sure there's a Python one for one.
vorpalhex 8y ago
Everybody and their cousin can write basic javascript, especially for these kinds of pretty easy cases. If you know python and had never written JS before, you could probably still play this with a bit of trial and error.
always_good 8y ago
Why would you use those over the ubiquitous language?

I’ve wondered, why are these types of games, such as Screeps or WarriorJS only ever made to be played with JS. Why not Python or Go or Assembly?

by piqalq 8y ago

I’ve wondered, why are these types of games, such as Screeps or WarriorJS only ever made to be played with JS. Why not Python or Go or Assembly?

setr 8y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War Probably because if it's going to be in the browser, they have to do a large chunk of the work in JS anyways and of course, everything is JS these days

kroltan 8y ago

There are many polyglot "code games". Off the top of my head: http://codingame.com/ http://codingame.com/ - They support a lot of languages, even Rust! I also remember an old Java application where you would write AIs for dueling bots, but I don't recall the name. The folks at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ also host several games like that, more often than not competitively, however, and not open-ended or "singleplayer" games. Most accept any language that can take stdin and print stdout.

pkkm 8y ago
> I also remember an old Java application where you would write AIs for dueling bots, but I don't recall the name. Sounds like Robocode.
brute 8y ago
You are probably thinking of http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ I played this like 17 years ago and to my most pleasant surprise, the project is still alive.

aeorgnoieang 8y ago

This one's based on [ruby-warrior](https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior). I'm sure there are other ports for other languages too. I'm pretty sure there's a Python one for one.

vorpalhex 8y ago

Everybody and their cousin can write basic javascript, especially for these kinds of pretty easy cases. If you know python and had never written JS before, you could probably still play this with a bit of trial and error.

always_good 8y ago

Why would you use those over the ubiquitous language?