Codakido, Lua/SDL programming environment for Kids, with C64-alike editor

Re:Codakido, Lua/SDL programming environment for Kids, with ... by antirez on Monday March 05, 2012 @04:23PM (#3668409)

Great stuff! And most are already in my TODO list indeed... The next weekend I'll hack on it a lot again to bring a few of this features.

But I would add another one:

e) Ability to write some kind of assembler or other low-level stuff interleaved with Lua, so that's possible to also do as-fast-as-ASM computations if needed.

I guess this should be a layer translating something like Z80 assembler into x86 code. You call Lua with a string containing the program, it gets translated, and executed. I guess it should not be entirely impossible to provide something that also compiles to something safe (that can't crash the Load81).

Thanks for the suggestions!

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Re:Codakido, Lua/SDL programming environment for Kids, with ... by seclorum on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @05:15AM (#3670387)

Inline Assembly, eh? Hmm.. not sure I can get behind that one, given that I've mostly been running codakido on my ARM machines .. but I can certainly understand the desire.

For my purposes, Lua has been quite performant enough!

Well, anyway maybe its time I added some of these features (can't stop thinking about the synth feature!) and do a pull request ..

;)

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