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   by play0ad 4y ago

   Obviously history plays a part there but V8 integration was not particularly better and mostly the high number of Nix users contributors over the years made it hard to use things made by GAFAMs.
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   by play0ad 4y ago

   It is although I'm not sure Spidermonkey (The js engine) has support for that.
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   by play0ad 4y ago

   See https://trac.wildfiregames.com/roadmap But basically more threading and optimizations. We're looking for experienced C++ programmers mainly. Javascript experience is mostly needed for gameplay, ai, random map gener
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   by play0ad 4y ago

   Would be fun as a mod. We once started a mod with Spring 1944's assets but it didn't take on. It's there https://github.com/0ADMods/pyrogenesis-1944
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   by play0ad 4y ago

   It has gotten better with pathfinder threading but the js is still running in one core...
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   by play0ad 4y ago

   Glad you like them :)
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   by play0ad 4y ago

   Thank you!
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   by play0ad 4y ago

   Well it's open source, so it's up to them :)
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   by play0ad 4y ago

   Thanks for making a post here again! :)
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    by play0ad 6y ago

    Brian Broll will be taking about 0 A.D. today between 11:10 and AM–12:25 PM PCT for Microsoft 's AI and Gaming Research Summit. They seem to still accept attendance registrations. https://lnkd.in/d5y5Y37
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    by play0ad 6y ago

    Actually it's there Xšayāršā (pronounced Khsha-ya-ṛsha; IPA: /xʃajaːr̩ʃaː/) :)
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    by play0ad 6y ago

    We use Arcanist + Phabricator, but main repo is SVN yes. We also have two git mirrors. We use Premake5 instead of CMake, for historical reasons. an attempt was made at Meson but it was too messy on Windows. We only switched to C++17 because
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    by play0ad 6y ago

    The problem is Spidermonkey for windows, as their build is pretty opaque, and they started calling some Windows APIs breaking compatibility. You get a nasty error if you try to run something there about a missing Kernel32 function For macOS
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    by play0ad 6y ago

    Fun fact that's the point, so we can "justify" artistic license for some things :D
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    by play0ad 6y ago

    It will totally work if you build from source ^^ I use this https://code.wildfiregames.com/P241 but basically you need only this after cloning and installing deps cd build/workspaces && sh update-workspaces.sh
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    by play0ad 6y ago

    They do, they even have their own website. Their repo is closed source so we can't take any patch from them though. https://fork-ad.gitlab.io/
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    by play0ad 6y ago

    There is on trac.wildfiregames.com One of the biggest but sadly not the only problem is pathfinder threading https://code.wildfiregames.com/D14 Other things like the messaging system could probably be threaded. Rendering ne
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    by play0ad 6y ago

    Hopefully we'll be selected for GSOC see: https://twitter.com/play0ad/status/1363607317653180419