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Re:TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming by boomlinde on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:15AM (#16974535)
The PICO-8 language is just Lua with some minor syntactic sugar.

It's also worth noting that TIC-80 has a $5 "PRO" version; the free (as in no cost) and open source version is basically shareware.

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Re:TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming by Nullabillity on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:27AM (#16974586)
From the README:

> For users who can't spend the money, we made it easy to build the pro version from the source code.

So the pro version is still FOSS, their builds are just not gratis.

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Re:TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming by jacquesm on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:43AM (#16974919)
That's a nice mixed model.
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