Introduction I’ve been working on and off on my own programming language, Letlang, for a while now. You may have already read a bit about it in my previous articles. I have made a lot of progress on the design of the runtime, and the features I want. But we’re still…

This is the 7th devlog of Warmonger Dynasty, a 4X turn-based strategy game made in C++/SDL. If you want to read the previous entries, take a look at my reading list. In my previous devlog, we talked about procedural map generation. We tried a combination of Voronoi diagrams, Perlin Noise…

Lisp is a family of multi-paradigm programming languages (functional, procedural, reflective, …), which can be similar to Lambda Calculus. The name stands for “list processing”. The syntax is based on the concept of S-Expression (short for: Symbolic Expression). The code is therefore organized in a tree-like data structure. …

This is the third devlog in my series about my game Warmonger Dynasty (a 4X turn-based strategy game). If you want to read the previous entries, take a look at my reading list. Today, we are gonna talk about Entity-Component-Systems in C++ (ECS for friends), and especially about one great…

GitHub - linkdd/astmaker: Build Abstract Syntax Trees and tree-walking models quickly in Rust. Build Abstract Syntax Trees and tree-walking models quickly in Rust. This example creates an AST for simple math…github.com While working on Letlang, I’ve had to design its AST with the Rust type system, which is a damn good fit for that use case! Then, I started writing tree-walking algorithms to walk through that AST during the different phases of compilation (scope analysis, code generation, …).

📝 Reminder: What is an ECS? Entity Component Systems are a pattern you’ll often see in game development. They are a “data oriented” way of organizing your code, by separating the data and the behaviors (game logic). EnTT is a C++ header-only library which provides one implementation of that pattern: GitHub - skypjack/entt: Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS)… EnTT has been a dream so far, we haven't found a single bug to date and it's super easy to work with -- Every EnTT User…github.com

For the past few months, I have been working on my own programming language, Letlang. You may have already read a bit about it in my previous articles. I’m happy to announce that one of the biggest feature of the language is now specified, implemented, and working! But what is…

While working on my own programming language, Letlang (read more about it here), I was faced with an issue. For the “Proof of Concept”, I decided to have only 64-bits floating point numbers instead of separate integer/float types, just like Javascript. …

This is the 6th devlog of Warmonger Dynasty, a 4X turn-based strategy game made in C++/SDL. If you want to read the previous entries, take a look at my reading list. In my previous devlogs, I talked more about the engine than the game. I felt it was an interesting…