On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 23:16:01 UTC, Richard Delorme wrote:
I am pleased to announce the release of a chess engine written
in D:
https://github.com/abulmo/amoeba
I am not aware of any other chess engine written with the D
language.
The source can be compiled with dmd, ldc or gdc, but the best
performance are obtained with the latter (almost twice faster).
This is my first program using the D language (I am a former C
programmer), and I enjoyed it a lot.
That is awesome!
Two questions:
1) If it is using UCI protocol I guess there are other engines
that you can compare amoeba with when it comes to performance and
other aspects, did you ?
2) It would be awesome if you could write down how it was to use
D for that project as someone freshly coming from C. What were
the reasons you chose D, what did you like, what did u hate ?
That would help you being read on reddit by a hundred blood
thursty devs (street cred and all) and us for knowing what we can
improve and also get the PR :)
Cheers,
Stephan
