Re:Tetris Written in Go
by beefsack on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:18PM
(#9608510)
I've built a few things on top of it now: a "rich" text editor, a layout system, and a client to my plain-text board gaming service. The two main things that have caused me trouble are:
* Inability to customise colours on systems that support it.
* Weak support for wide characters as termbox works directly on "cells", but can work around it with application logic.
* It's quite easy to cause fatals, especially when working directly on the underlying buffer. Need to be quite careful.
The fact that it's native and cross platform is fantastic though, I'm a little worried that early design decisions will make it hard to rectify some of the warts though without large backwards-incompatible changes.
Re:Tetris Written in Go
by laumars on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @04:35AM
(#9610066)
The fatals were my main gripe as well. And to make matters worse, the crash report would be unreadable because it would dump in ncurses mode (which would also break my command prompt too)
* Inability to customise colours on systems that support it. * Weak support for wide characters as termbox works directly on "cells", but can work around it with application logic. * It's quite easy to cause fatals, especially when working directly on the underlying buffer. Need to be quite careful.
The fact that it's native and cross platform is fantastic though, I'm a little worried that early design decisions will make it hard to rectify some of the warts though without large backwards-incompatible changes.