Re: My thoughts on C# and gaming.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Jon Watte <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you want a dynamic language with type checking which runs really fast,
> how about Google V8?
> Yes, it's JavaScript, not Lisp, but they actually share a great deal in
> construction when you get down to it. (Except JS uses braces and maps, not
> parens and cons)

Actually I did experiment with Google V8 (still have it on this
computer somewhere), but it had a number of limitations that were
difficult to work around.  TraceMonkey's version was a bit easier and
ran faster for the things I would have used it for, but still, I would
prefer to have something I could put more into an Actor format, JS
does not work well with that with things like global variables and
such, which I would have no clue how to prevent..., plus threads do
not work quite so well in JS in all the implementations I have seen...


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ivan-Assen Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you want a dynamic language with type checking which runs really fast,
>> how about Google V8?
>> Yes, it's JavaScript, not Lisp, but they actually share a great deal in
>> construction when you get down to it. (Except JS uses braces and maps, not
>> parens and cons)
>
> Here we come full circle to the beginning of the thread where somebody
> mentioned Lua;
> Javascript is very, very similar to Lua, modulo the syntax, and Lua's
> metatables. LuaJIT is faster than V8, last time I checked, and both are
> only really usable on PC (V8 does have an ARM implementation, AFAIK).
> And Lua is somewhere between one and two orders of magnitude smaller to embed.

Where-as, technically, mine could work on just about anything thanks
to LLVM, even PIC...  ;-)
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