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by kragen
2639 days ago
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Hi! I might be an embarrassingly gushing fanboy about everything you do, so I'm probably biased here. (I wrote the FlatBuffers Wikipedia page, for example.) Lobster is pretty inspiring (despite not being nearly as radical as, e.g., Aardappel) with its lightweight lambdas and (like most of your work) a very minimal core language. Is there a comparison of different versions of Lobster somewhere? I'd like to be able to make statements like "My new language XYZ, unlike Lobster, is dynamically typed, resulting in difficulties such as plicplocpluc in developing the IDE" but different versions of Lobster now cover such a large part of the language design space that this is becoming difficult. For example, that statement doesn't make sense with respect to old versions of Lobster, which were also dynamically typed. |
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Yes, Lobster is meant to be a much more pragmatic language, for people like myself to actually get the job of making a game done :) Other languages of mine are much more research-y. Though I will say I think the type system and lifetime analysis are pretty novel actually.
I'd like to think there's really only one Lobster, while older versions are still recoverable, they for practical purposes don't exist anymore :) Have you seen https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent... ? That actually contains some history.