Re: [ANN] Cratera - a games-oriented Lua fork
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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Cratera - a games-oriented Lua fork
- From: "Soni L." <fakedme@...>
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 13:41:24 -0300
On 2017年09月08日 11:15 PM, KHMan wrote:
On 9/9/2017 3:59 AM, Petri Häkkinen wrote:
On 8 Sep 2017, at 5.16, KHMan wrote:
"Most games nowadays use components one way or another"
I'm not familiar with this "components" thing, or maybe I just
didn't look in the right places. I am also confused by "runtime
traits".
There's a pretty good explanation of entity-component systems in
Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity–component–system
Ah, many thanks.
Well, looking at the references, I guess it's not terminology that is
widely known beyond game programming, but there is some effort to make
this a brand of sorts.
The word 'runtime' seems to be getting overloaded with a lot of
things. I find it a little weird to be talking about 'runtime' on an
interpreted language.
All the best to Soni, I applaud this kind of experimentation. :-)
Java is (arguably) an interpreted/scripting language. Yet Java has
compile-time generics, but not runtime generics. So no, "runtime" on an
interpreted language isn't all that weird. (Java also has runtime types
in addition to static types. The rules for static types are a bit
different from runtime types - you can't call methods on `null`, for
example, because null is its own type, and so it generates a
NullPointerException (instead of segfaulting or doing other bad things).
You also can't reinterpret types like String as int.)
Rust has compile-time traits. But it does not, in fact, have runtime
traits. If you make a trait and impl that trait on someone else's
struct, reflection with that struct will not be able to see your trait,
and thus won't be able to make trait objects with it.
Cratera has runtime traits. What "runtime traits" means is currently not
well-defined, but I'm working on that. (This might end up not being
called "runtime traits" AT ALL in the future.)
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