Re: My thoughts on C# and gaming.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Tomi Neste <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Brandon Van Every <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> 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)
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>> 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/

Hmm, have not ran across that one yet, Apache2 license, I have not
researched that one yet, I shall do so...
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