Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by dleslie on Monday December 23, 2019 @10:07AM (#21864006)

Crystal _could be_ for game developers; there's large green pastures left almost entirely untouched for a language to disrupt it. You see a few niche languages make inroads, like Haxe, but I expect something could really effect change.

The key is to be as fast as possible, as memory light as possible, and able to produce and speak to C ABI.

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Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by s_y_n_t_a_x on Monday December 23, 2019 @10:25AM (#21864146)

Nim and Lua are in that pasture. Being fast, memory light, and the C interop are the key features of Lua.

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Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by dleslie on Monday December 23, 2019 @11:19AM (#21864638)

Lua yes, and since the 90s, but Nim? I've not seen that yet. What games use it?

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Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by s_y_n_t_a_x on Monday December 23, 2019 @11:31AM (#21864730)

There's integration in Unreal Engine for Nim.

I'm not saying it's widespread, but the language features put it in that field.

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Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by _pmf_ on Monday December 23, 2019 @12:06PM (#21865049)

Jon Blow's (developer of "The Witness") Jai is worth mentioning in that context (not released, though).

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