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Re:Jai Language Primer by CyberDildonics on Friday February 12, 2016 @10:01AM (#11087607)
You can do that right now with Love2D and a stub game loop that sources the actual implementations every second or two.
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Re:Jai Language Primer by davexunit on Friday February 12, 2016 @10:13AM (#11087689)
That is a far cry from a REPL.
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Re:Jai Language Primer by CyberDildonics on Friday February 12, 2016 @10:32AM (#11087851)
It's better than a REPL, that allows you to write a game completely live. I'm not sure what you think is lost since you didn't back up what you are saying with anything.
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Re:Jai Language Primer by davexunit on Friday February 12, 2016 @10:58AM (#11088096)
It is strictly less powerful than a REPL. Claiming that you can't live code a game at a REPL is false, because I do it on a regular basis. When I write games in Scheme, I use a REPL to write the game live, doing all of my editing within Emacs. I do not have to save files for the code to be evaluated, I just press a keystroke to evaluate the specific form I'm interested in. I can evaluate more fine-grained sections of code, not only entire files.
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Re:Jai Language Primer by CyberDildonics on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:10PM (#11088656)
Pressing a keystroke is all it takes to save a file.

Also if you are selectively executing parts of files, how is it that you are editing the live running source code?

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