For programmers: Which scripting language is better and why?

[Hirato]

Re: For programmers: Which scripting language is better and

It is truly moronic to start a engine recreation project and don't use the scripting language that the original game and mods used

Pretty much this.



If they really have to change the scripting language, Lua would be a far better choice than Javascript or C#, but this still has the problem of requiring a rewrite of everything.

 

[ChristofferC]

Python, lisp.

 

[Flatlander]

So, if they are using Mono why not just provide a decent API and let the scripters decide which language to use?

 

[thursdayschild]

You keep telling yourself that, lazy asshole. You can't even bring yourself to admit that you have become a soul-wretched entity who has stopped caring about anything much less RPGs. And why so desperate to claim that someone other than you is butthurt? Sounds like a typical case of butthurt to me

Like dancing with a million angels.

 

[thursdayschild]

Re: For programmers: Which scripting language is better and

The ToEE Engine recreation project guy extended the question at Co8, and I thought it wouldn't hurt if some of the programming geeks here weighed in.

http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?p=107873

It is truly moronic to start a engine recreation project

Actually, you could have stopped here. I can see it for an old and simple game. These guys just have no idea what they are in for, and using unity engine they will never get more than 10% done for a project like this, and that's being generous. Of course they will show some characters inengine right away and impress people but this will never go anywhere.

 

[eclectocrat]

Lua. Pro game devs have been using Lua since the mid 90's.

Why?
- Fast, Small
- Really easy to integrate into an engine, unlike Python
- Easy to understand
- Supports a wide variety of programming styles

Python is too difficult to integrate and very heavy (not so good for phone games), but if you manage to get it done, it's also pretty sweet.

 

[SCO]

Re: For programmers: Which scripting language is better and

The ToEE Engine recreation project guy extended the question at Co8, and I thought it wouldn't hurt if some of the programming geeks here weighed in.

http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?p=107873

It is truly moronic to start a engine recreation project

Actually, you could have stopped here. I can see it for an old and simple game. These guys just have no idea what they are in for, and using unity engine they will never get more than 10% done for a project like this, and that's being generous. Of course they will show some characters inengine right away and impress people but this will never go anywhere.

I didn't want to discourage them. Who knows? Maybe in 5 years they can make something more or less complete like the exult/gemrb. They have the original rules and file formats, and don't have to make a compiler/interpreter and decompiler for the scripts that is half-way there.

Oh dude above me, do you know how troika integrated the "complex" python language in bloodlines (after ToEE)?

They called two functions in the very high level code scripting interface of the python C api. One was for conversations and returned a bool (as a float because by that time, python hadn't a bool). The other was the file interpreter that was run on the maps load for the map python script (available to be called by triggers on the map). It returned a string (compile error or stdout), that would be redirected to the game console. Actual communication with game engine functions were with python bindings, which are a pointer, a description and a module away - though at that time, i suspect it was harder (except converting the python type to the c type with PyArg_ParseTuple function in the bindings).

Ultra complex this.

 

[zenbitz]

FORTRAN