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DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019)

56 points by wesamco 6y ago

j88439h84 6y ago
Compare to Nim?
- michaelcampbell 6y ago
  Indeed. And Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/ https://crystal-lang.org/)
  - MaxBarraclough 6y ago
    Does Crystal have an interpreter? I get the impression traditional ahead-of-time compilation is currently the only way to use it. daScript has both ahead-of-time compilation and an interpreter.
pjmlp 6y ago
Nice one, it is nice to see an increase in more productive languages offering compilation as part of their toolchain capabilities.
out_of_protocol 6y ago
Too early to say anything but looks like it could replace lua as game's default scripting language. Suggestion to authors: copy Golang tour
ColinWright 6y ago
OK, so I'm going to be a grumpy old man ... My eyesight isn't great, so I use the "Zoom" function on Firefox to increase the font size. But the text now doesn't wrap, and I'm constantly scrolling from side-to-side to be able to read the text. It's tedious in the extreme. Screen shot here: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/daScript.png https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/daScript.png Magnification, line truncation, and scroll bar indicated. * Why doesn't the text wrap to the window size? No idea. * Why is it written like this? No idea. Annoying, irritating, and so unnecessary.
- RedShift1 6y ago
  Even worse on mobile
- bxparks 6y ago
  Yup, and Reader mode on Firefox Mobile is disabled. Couldn't read more than a few sentences. Just out of curiosity, what controls whether or not reader mode is enabled?
  - parkovski 6y ago
    I believe it is a heuristic that looks at text length, element type and class name.
    - sunnylemon 6y ago
      Yup! It looks for paragraphs that are at least 140 characters long. I wrote about it a bit more here: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics
- kilburn 6y ago
  > I'm going to be a grumpy old man ... Ironically, the site is made using tables for layout! Like, the really old technique where the left and right margins of the content are actually td's with a bunch of &nbsp's inside. I'm really surprised that someone would make a site this way nowadays. It is a lot more work than necessary and the end results are not great (as you can see here). PS: Running this in your console will get to a mostly workable state (not great, but better): [...document.querySelectorAll('*')].map(e => {e.style.width = 'auto';}) Edit: I did my good deed of the day by opening a PR that modernizes the site's markup and CSS, fixing the issues too: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/pull/70 https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/pull/70
  - CyberDildonics 6y ago
    Maybe that's why it loaded so fast it was done before I could switch to the tab.
dkersten 6y ago
Looks really interesting. Nice approach and interesting featureset. I’ll have to keep an eye on it. Currently, it seems to be lacking documentation on how to embed and interoperate with C++, though, so have no idea how easy it is to get working (especially AOT vs interpreted and interop with templated C++ code).
formerly_proven 6y ago
Curiously the daScript repository goes back to 2008, when it contained a URI parser: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/tree/262ca4aecf26f9d399c27e592f6246c4b7f74fb6 https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/tree/262ca4a... Ten years later, in 2018, someone added a basic lexer for "YZG" to the repo: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/commit/215d50a2f84f630bde7369d508730baa51f951df https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/commit/215d5...
eggy 6y ago
Used by Gaijin Entertainment and compiled and run on Nintendo Switch are two things that caught my eye. I will have to check it out for use in place of LuaJit.

56 points by wesamco 6y ago

j88439h84 6y ago

Compare to Nim?

michaelcampbell 6y ago
Indeed. And Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/ https://crystal-lang.org/)
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  Does Crystal have an interpreter? I get the impression traditional ahead-of-time compilation is currently the only way to use it. daScript has both ahead-of-time compilation and an interpreter.

pjmlp 6y ago

Nice one, it is nice to see an increase in more productive languages offering compilation as part of their toolchain capabilities.

out_of_protocol 6y ago

Too early to say anything but looks like it could replace lua as game's default scripting language. Suggestion to authors: copy Golang tour

ColinWright 6y ago

OK, so I'm going to be a grumpy old man ... My eyesight isn't great, so I use the "Zoom" function on Firefox to increase the font size. But the text now doesn't wrap, and I'm constantly scrolling from side-to-side to be able to read the text. It's tedious in the extreme. Screen shot here: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/daScript.png https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/daScript.png Magnification, line truncation, and scroll bar indicated. * Why doesn't the text wrap to the window size? No idea. * Why is it written like this? No idea. Annoying, irritating, and so unnecessary.

RedShift1 6y ago
Even worse on mobile
bxparks 6y ago
Yup, and Reader mode on Firefox Mobile is disabled. Couldn't read more than a few sentences. Just out of curiosity, what controls whether or not reader mode is enabled?
- parkovski 6y ago
  I believe it is a heuristic that looks at text length, element type and class name.
  - sunnylemon 6y ago
    Yup! It looks for paragraphs that are at least 140 characters long. I wrote about it a bit more here: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics
kilburn 6y ago
> I'm going to be a grumpy old man ... Ironically, the site is made using tables for layout! Like, the really old technique where the left and right margins of the content are actually td's with a bunch of &nbsp's inside. I'm really surprised that someone would make a site this way nowadays. It is a lot more work than necessary and the end results are not great (as you can see here). PS: Running this in your console will get to a mostly workable state (not great, but better): [...document.querySelectorAll('*')].map(e => {e.style.width = 'auto';}) Edit: I did my good deed of the day by opening a PR that modernizes the site's markup and CSS, fixing the issues too: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/pull/70 https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/pull/70
- CyberDildonics 6y ago
  Maybe that's why it loaded so fast it was done before I could switch to the tab.

dkersten 6y ago

Looks really interesting. Nice approach and interesting featureset. I’ll have to keep an eye on it. Currently, it seems to be lacking documentation on how to embed and interoperate with C++, though, so have no idea how easy it is to get working (especially AOT vs interpreted and interop with templated C++ code).

formerly_proven 6y ago

Curiously the daScript repository goes back to 2008, when it contained a URI parser: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/tree/262ca4aecf26f9d399c27e592f6246c4b7f74fb6 https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/tree/262ca4a... Ten years later, in 2018, someone added a basic lexer for "YZG" to the repo: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/commit/215d50a2f84f630bde7369d508730baa51f951df https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/commit/215d5...

eggy 6y ago

Used by Gaijin Entertainment and compiled and run on Nintendo Switch are two things that caught my eye. I will have to check it out for use in place of LuaJit.