WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#1

Post by ColinEberhardt » Fri, May 15, 2020, 7:55 AM UTC

WebAssembly COBOL Pong
moxon6.github.io

Re: WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#2

Post by ianbooker » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:03 AM UTC

I love how this is a total geekery for fun project and one of the best quasi job application in 2020.

Re: WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#3

Post by jgrahamc » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:05 AM UTC

See also, using COBOL with Cloudflare Workers (via WebAssembly): https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-now-support-c...

Re: WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#4

Post by tiborsaas » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:23 AM UTC

ianbooker wrote: post #2

I love how this is a total geekery for fun project and one of the best quasi job application in 2020.

That's really cool Ian, now can we get back to this directed graph?

Re: WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#5

Post by CuriousCosmic » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:26 AM UTC

tiborsaas wrote: post #4

ianbooker wrote: post #2

I love how this is a total geekery for fun project and one of the best quasi job application in 2020.

That's really cool Ian, now can we get back to this directed graph?

This hurts me on an emotional, spiritual, and physical level.

Re: WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#6

Post by esimov » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:31 AM UTC

Cute little project. Thumb up for selecting Cobol as the language of choice for the implementation. I might feel nostalgic.

Re: WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#7

Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:46 AM UTC

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Re: WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#8

Post by angrygoat » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:49 AM UTC

Neat! The actual COBOL is pretty minimal, just tracking where the balls and paddles are and then calling out to update the DOM. It doesn't look anywhere near as horrific as I would have expected :)

https://github.com/moxon6/cobol-js-emscripten/blob/master/co...

Re: WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#9

Post by Tade0 » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:56 AM UTC

ianbooker wrote: post #2

I love how this is a total geekery for fun project and one of the best quasi job application in 2020.

My first reaction was that this must have been some kind of plot to make young people interested in COBOL using the type of games the current demographic of this language knows best.

Re: WebAssembly COBOL Pong

#10

Post by sandov » Fri, May 15, 2020, 9:05 AM UTC

Right paddle controls are backwards compared to vim.