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Hi! I am currently investigating new languages that would
be suitable for High level programming in video games (AI, scripting and more…). The video game community is still stuck in the
imperative C/C++ scheme and it’s difficult to change minds. The main features I am looking for is garbage
collection, static typing, strict and functional programming style, higher
order functions, type polymorphism, inference, easy c/c++ integration, continuations,
etc… (I reasonably could not propose Haskell/Clean/Caml in
the industry; it’s a too big step and frankly I must admit it’s a
bit too complex to start pragmatically). I also want people to start to realize that there’s
another (functional) world and how referential transparency is useful, especially
for safety and multi core execution. The performance always matters as it is often used as
an argument counter new language adoption and obviously, could be a problem
while defining the frontier between the script and the C++ engine. Portability is a must have. Today Lua and Python are the main script languages
but they lack safety, speed and easy integration, on the other side, the
community is big and there are a lot of tools and libraries. D language is very, very interesting but lacks Portability
and the integration is not easy enough. I finally found Felix and thought I found the
solution!!! I really appreciate, the work you’re doing and
I really hope Felix to be a C++ successor in the long run. As a feedback, I have to tell you that you better
work on your internet exposure – even in Lambda the ultimate it is
difficult to find you. Try to put some entries inside the language shootout
for example… (I am interested in results even if the benchmark is quite low
level and imperative-friendly). Doing so, I am sure you could benefit from a lot of
people help, the community size matters and is a reason why a language succeeds. Anyway, there is my question: Is there any time line or roadmap about Felix language
development, libraries and tools (especially IDE and debugger)? Is there any projects using Felix? I tried to install Felix, following wiki procedure
but there’s no explanation about how to run a test and the bin directory installation
is ambiguous… Keep doing the good job – and save my soul, living
in this C world is a pain! Stephane |
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