Compile Time C++ Snake Game (2016)

Re:Compile Time C++ Snake Game (2016) by earenndil on Sunday July 15, 2018 @01:57AM (#17534000)

Honestly I wouldn't say overpowered so much as poorly designed. I don't think there's anything wrong with having a way to perform arbitrarily complex operations at compile time; in fact, ante[1] (and others) even have this as a selling point. The problem comes when you don't mean for this to happen and you're just trying to implement type erasure.

1: https://github.com/jfecher/ante

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Re:Compile Time C++ Snake Game (2016) by pietroglyph on Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:00AM (#17534124)

Ante is super cool! I think the following passage neatly encapsulates the power of (thoughtful) compile-time extensiblity:

> "Ante provides several different methods of memory management, including manual management. Don’t want to bother with any of it? Simply 'import GC' to use a garbage collector."

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Re:Compile Time C++ Snake Game (2016) by earenndil on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:10AM (#17534317)

Do note that most of the language as specified isn't yet implemented yet. There's no GC nor is there (afaik) any form of memory management beyond malloc/free. Also pattern matching isn't there yet. However, development seems to be reasonably active so I'm sure those are in the pipeline.

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