[a_t48]

I miss working in Lua. Metatables are pretty powerful, and "everything is in a table" made it super easy to do hot reloading. At one point working on an iOS game, I had things set up so that when I hit save on my PC, my phone would pick up the changes and just start running the new code, as all persistent state was stored in a special table. Someday I need to look into getting the same kind of environment going for robotics, it was really a superpower.

[cmontella]

I'm building something like Lua for robots, you might want to check it out if you're looking to collaborate. I didn't know about Lua when I started it, but I did end up at an "everything is a table" metaphor because it seemed good for robotics. This does allow for cool things like hot reloading and such.

Although, we've since moved to having several distinct data structures which conceptually map to tables, but implementation and syntax-wise have differences (mostly for performance).

BTW Basis was a good idea, I remember reading about Nondeterministic replay is a big problem on platforms like ROS.

[a_t48]

I think I could actually build what I was thinking of on top of basis, but need to think about some things. Serialization of internal state was kicked around as a design idea at the start, but didn’t see enough benefit back then. In any case basis isn’t quite dead, I still use the thing as a test bed for ideas.

I’ll take a look at your thing, too!

[kanbankaren]

> I didn't know about Lua when I started it

How did you miss Lua? It has been available for decades and good SE practice is to evaluate alternatives before commiting to any techonology.