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geekrelief / gdnim

godot-nim based bootstrapping framework supporting hot reloading
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nimscript? #5

Closed geekrelief closed 3 years ago

geekrelief commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/dsrw/enu uses the nim interpreter to implement a DSL. It creates an interpreter per script. Not sure how performant this is, but it could be useful for quickly testing out ideas.

how to embed nimscript: https://peterme.net/how-to-embed-nimscript-into-a-nim-program-embedding-nimscript-pt-2.html

geekrelief commented 3 years ago

This might be useful https://github.com/beef331/nimscripter

geekrelief commented 3 years ago

After studying nimscript, trying out nimscripter, studying dsrw/enu, I don't think integrating nimscript is worth the cost of implementation. At the minimum bindings are needed between the nimscript and godot-nim. If you're going to interact with Godot callbacks, then you need to do something like what enu is doing checking the state of the script/VM. Each instance that runs a nimscript needs to instance an interpreter. I already get 2-3 seconds compile times, so iterating with hot reloading is pretty quick. Hopefully, the {.pure.} bug is fixed in the compiler, and IC will reduce the iteration time even further.