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DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019)

by wesamco on 8/15/20, 6:26 AM with 16 comments

• by ColinWright on 8/16/20, 11:51 AM

  OK, so I'm going to be a grumpy old man ...

  My eyesight isn't great, so I use the "Zoom" function on Firefox to increase the font size. But the text now doesn't wrap, and I'm constantly scrolling from side-to-side to be able to read the text. It's tedious in the extreme.

  Screen shot here: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/daScript.png

  Magnification, line truncation, and scroll bar indicated.

  * Why doesn't the text wrap to the window size? No idea.

  * Why is it written like this? No idea.

  Annoying, irritating, and so unnecessary.

• by pjmlp on 8/16/20, 10:33 AM

  Nice one, it is nice to see an increase in more productive languages offering compilation as part of their toolchain capabilities.

• by formerly_proven on 8/16/20, 1:31 PM

  Curiously the daScript repository goes back to 2008, when it contained a URI parser: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/tree/262ca4a...

  Ten years later, in 2018, someone added a basic lexer for "YZG" to the repo: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/commit/215d5...

• by out_of_protocol on 8/16/20, 11:08 AM

  Too early to say anything but looks like it could replace lua as game's default scripting language. Suggestion to authors: copy Golang tour

• by dkersten on 8/16/20, 1:22 PM

  Looks really interesting. Nice approach and interesting featureset. I’ll have to keep an eye on it.

  Currently, it seems to be lacking documentation on how to embed and interoperate with C++, though, so have no idea how easy it is to get working (especially AOT vs interpreted and interop with templated C++ code).

• by eggy on 8/16/20, 3:03 PM

  Used by Gaijin Entertainment and compiled and run on Nintendo Switch are two things that caught my eye. I will have to check it out for use in place of LuaJit.

• by j88439h84 on 8/15/20, 5:29 PM

  Compare to Nim?