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This is a really nice looking language. Feedback in case the creator sees but it wasn't obvious to me at first that it was targeting game development. The first

This is a really nice looking language. Feedback in case the creator sees but it wasn't obvious to me at first that it was targeting game development. The first mention is in features: > Features have been picked for their suitability in a game programming language Would be fun to see some basic games like tetris, pong etc in Lobster in case anyone has an example floating round?

Aardappel 1y ago
Seen by creator :) It comes with a tiny minecraft clone in < 100 lines of Lobster. Agreed it could use more actual game examples. I've written a ton of game prototypes in it, and some could do with open sourcing, just haven't gotten around to it.
- benrutter 1y ago
  Ah hey, nice language! A minecraft clone in <100 lines sounds like a pretty awesome feat, I'll definitely check it out!
  - klaussilveira 1y ago
    https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/samples/lobstercraft.lobster https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/samples/lob... It brings the joy back to graphics and game programming.
- dr_kiszonka 1y ago
  Hi, very nice language! I noticed that Lobster, like many other languages, does not use the C style for-loop syntax, `for (int i = 0; i < m; i++): print(i);`. Could you say why that is? I have been writing Python for many years but still miss that C syntax. Initiating `i` right before every loop feels clunky to me.
  - Aardappel 1y ago
    In Lobster, this is `for(m) i: print(i)` Or simply `for(m): print(_)` The syntax comes from the observation that even in C-like languages, 99% of the time I want to iterate over the range (0..m-1), so that's what it is optimized for. I don't enjoy writing the same boilerplate over and over. Moreover, because it is so verbose, it is hard to spot `for (int i = 0; i <= m; i++): print(i);` being a special kind of loop since it looks so similar to the common `<` case. I'd rather that looks entirely different to alert me we're also iterating over the bound. I am not sure what you mean by "Initiating `i` right before every loop"

Aardappel 1y ago

Seen by creator :) It comes with a tiny minecraft clone in < 100 lines of Lobster. Agreed it could use more actual game examples. I've written a ton of game prototypes in it, and some could do with open sourcing, just haven't gotten around to it.

benrutter 1y ago
Ah hey, nice language! A minecraft clone in <100 lines sounds like a pretty awesome feat, I'll definitely check it out!
- klaussilveira 1y ago
  https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/samples/lobstercraft.lobster https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/samples/lob... It brings the joy back to graphics and game programming.
dr_kiszonka 1y ago
Hi, very nice language! I noticed that Lobster, like many other languages, does not use the C style for-loop syntax, `for (int i = 0; i < m; i++): print(i);`. Could you say why that is? I have been writing Python for many years but still miss that C syntax. Initiating `i` right before every loop feels clunky to me.
- Aardappel 1y ago
  In Lobster, this is `for(m) i: print(i)` Or simply `for(m): print(_)` The syntax comes from the observation that even in C-like languages, 99% of the time I want to iterate over the range (0..m-1), so that's what it is optimized for. I don't enjoy writing the same boilerplate over and over. Moreover, because it is so verbose, it is hard to spot `for (int i = 0; i <= m; i++): print(i);` being a special kind of loop since it looks so similar to the common `<` case. I'd rather that looks entirely different to alert me we're also iterating over the bound. I am not sure what you mean by "Initiating `i` right before every loop"