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I think you might be conflating boardgame.io and boardgamelab.app. boardgame.io - MIT licensed open-source JS library. boardgamelab.app - Proprietary platform for designing and pla…

I agree that asynchronous flows are hard to represent using a state object. I chose to go with a monadic approach in boardgamelab.app (I'm not limited by language features since I'…

boardgame.io was created as a personal open-source project while I was employed at Google. It is not an official Google product.

Original creator of boardgame.io here. A pleasant surprise to see this here after many years. More recently, I've been working on https://boardgamelab.app/ , which uses a visual pr…

For academic literature, I would recommend reading: 1. James Ross: https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/43151/ross-immateriali... 2. Edward Feser: https://www.newdualism.org/paper…

If we're talking about some sort of computational system achieving consciousness, I'm curious how you can escape the fact that computation is observer-relative, i.e. the underlying…

Great to hear about the revival of sacred music in your diocese. Do you happen to have any links to the documents that your previous bishop wrote?

You could consider using a library like boardgame.io for this.

Wanted to add that Lisp maps quite well to visual programming languages: https://boardgamelab.app/blog/visual-scripting/ You get the benefits of writing code composed of neat delin…

Do you have specific examples of what is difficult to understand in the standard books for a non-native speaker? Just asking out of curiosity and maybe readers can learn a thing or…

That's right. For my use-case I decided to just stick with JS for UI stuff (using Svelte). I call into Rust code like a black box to update some state.

No reason except that I've written Go in the past and wanted to learn a new language :) Comparing the two languages, I would say that Rust's enums and pattern matching make it easi…

The Rollup plugin linked to in the article produces JS functions that call into WASM code. JS objects are automatically converted to Rust structs via Serde and vice-versa. I use Ty…

Something like this is valid TypeScript I think? interface MyType { a: number; } function process(value: MyType) { console.log(value); } const value = { a: 1, b: 2 }; process(value…

Note that Rust is only used for the state updates. All the UI stuff is TypeScript (using Svelte).

Thanks for the link! I'll look into this for my other TypeScript codebases.

Hey Amit, good to hear from you! > Javascript is fast enough for your use case. No one will notice the difference in a board game website. No, actually. Have you seen how long boar…

Yep, I don't think Rust is quite there yet for web dev. I didn't use Rust for any frontend interactions. The web app is an SPA written in Svelte. I only used it for the core state …

That's correct. You have to insert validation code at all the entry points, which was the case for me. Moving to Rust doesn't eliminate validation altogether, but you don't have to…

I'm just using an SPA written in Svelte on the frontend. I only use Rust for the game state updates. About measurements, I just whipped up a quick benchmark comparing the JavaScrip…

@soylentgraham: You should check out the recent releases of https://boardgame.io/ . The tutorials are now rewritten with a focus on the plain JS client (no React).