Re: My thoughts on C# and gaming.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Brandon Van Every <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:51 AM, OvermindDL1 <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Brandon Van Every <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Embeddable Common Lisp.
> >> http://ecls.sourceforge.net/  I don't know about the performance
> >> though.
> >
> > Yeah, I had found that one before, but slight issue, it is infected by
> the GPL:
> >  GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
>
> There aren't any Lisp implementations that are free, work well on
> Windows, have good performance, and good licenses.  Once upon a time I
> gave up on the Lisp universe on Windows because SBCL just couldn't get
> its porting act together.  Seems it still hasn't, looking at their
> website.  There's more available in the Scheme universe.  I used to
> work on the build for Chicken Scheme, a Scheme-to-C compiler that is
> BSD licensed.  http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/  I can't
> really comment on the performance though; it's been 2 years.
> Numerical performance probably lacks.  Felix, the project owner, is
> easy to work with and receptive to contributions.  He just can't be
> arsed to deal with CMake, hence why we parted ways.  Oh... shoot, that
> reminds me, MSVC support died with my departure.  Well, um, sorry.  I
> had tamed that wilderness, had it under control for 6 months.  Then
> reality happened: Unix guys do not care about MSVC.  I think you will
> probably be wasting your time looking for another Scheme to suit your
> needs; Chicken was the closest thing out there.  Keep working on your
> own language, you're better off.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
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Just a quick datapoint: I think these days Gambit Scheme (
http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ) is the
best choice if you want an reasonably sized and well performing Scheme
compiler with good C integration. It's mostly similar to Chicken but has an
actively maintained MSVC port and there has also been iPhone etc. ports and
at least one indie game made with it; http://www.quantzgame.com/

-- 
tomppa

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