It's all in your head, Part 9

[redavi]

What about Javascript? Pretty sure everyone and their mother knows it by now.

The SpiderMonkey JS engine is available from mozilla.org along with embedding documentation. Implementation-wise the engine is rock solid, and getting even more so with the new support from Adobe with the Tamerlin (ActionScript engine) code from Flash.

The issues that come to my mind are the MPL/GPL/LPGL license (up to you guys how this effects you), and it's implemented in C not C++.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SpiderMonkey

[Pox]

What about Javascript? Pretty sure everyone and their mother knows it by now.

The SpiderMonkey JS engine is available from mozilla.org along with embedding documentation. Implementation-wise the engine is rock solid, and getting even more so with the new support from Adobe with the Tamerlin (ActionScript engine) code from Flash.

The issues that come to my mind are the MPL/GPL/LPGL license (up to you guys how this effects you), and it's implemented in C not C++.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SpiderMonkey

Well SDL is LGPL, and they've been quite happy using that for a while

Dunno about actually using JS though... it's great for web, but how's the object-oriented support? Considering the scalability that Updefwinia has so far, I don't think it'd be appropriate, unless I've missed a whole subset of what it can do.

[prophile]

JavaScript works fine as a game scripting language - it's the language of choice for the Unity engine.

They did have a particularly fast custom implementation, however.

Also, it's probably best for Introversion if they keep the taint of the GPL as far away from their software as possible.

[mb108]

"taint" .... ?

LGPL is fine as long as you link dynamically.

[shinygerbil]

JavaScript works fine as a game scripting language - it's the language of choice for the Unity engine.

They did have a particularly fast custom implementation, however.

Unity is fast? When did that happen?

This, while being an absolutely awesome game, runs abysmally slowly. (Although I haven't played since it first came out, so I don't know if their optimisations have actually improved anything.) So many people complained about the game's poor performance. And before you say it was the web player - I tested a downloadable version, and it was no better.

[KingAl]

I dunno, the trees didn't spontaneously appear directly in front of me quite so much.

[Pox]

Also, it's probably best for Introversion if they keep the taint of the GPL as far away from their software as possible.

Taint? You need a good stabbing, the LGPL is perfectly fine for including in commercial software, and the relation to the orthodox GPL keeps it nice and awesome.

[prophile]

JavaScript works fine as a game scripting language - it's the language of choice for the Unity engine.

They did have a particularly fast custom implementation, however.

Unity is fast? When did that happen?

This, while being an absolutely awesome game, runs abysmally slowly. (Although I haven't played since it first came out, so I don't know if their optimisations have actually improved anything.) So many people complained about the game's poor performance. And before you say it was the web player - I tested a downloadable version, and it was no better.

Unity as a whole is not particularly fast, but its Javascript implementation is.

[RabidZombie]

...but its Javascript implementation is.

In the sense it isn't slowing down the already slow engine.

[Feud]

Real programmers code with butterflies.

[RabidZombie]

'Cause, there's an Emacs command to do that.

[Rkiver]

Real programmers code with the random fluctuations caused by what chaos theory predicts when a butterfly flaps it's wings on the otherside of the planet.

[RabidZombie]

Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.

[Mas Tnega]

Real programmers already have all the code they need[size=0], only none of it will talk to each other[/size].

[Rkiver]

Real programmers already have all the code they need, only none of it will talk to each other.

That's the quote of this thread right there.