Compiling a Go program into a native binary for Nintendo Switch
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#2Hajime Hoshi is a true gem and the Go ecosystem is incredibly lucky to have him.
He was very approachable and friendly when I was toying with game development in Go.
I should get back to finishing that game in Ebiten. The tooling alone puts a smile on my face.
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#3Hajime Hoshi is a true gem and the Go ecosystem is incredibly lucky to have him. He was very approachable and friendly when I was toying with game development in Go. I should get back to finishing that game in Ebiten. The tooling alone puts a smile on my face.
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#4This is awesome. Sad to see the work is kind of “wasted” in the sense that it’s not officially supported and any update to Go will likely break it. But I learned a lot reading this article.
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#5There is also some support for the Switch with TinyGo (A Go compiler for embedded system), but looking at the current state of the docs for this platform it's hard to tell how well supported it might be: https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/microcontrollers/nintendos...
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#6I absolutely love ebiten, it's gotten me back into game development which was why I initially got into software dev. I've been working through the Game Programming Patterns book and it's been an awesome platform to learn some of the common patterns in game dev. Also the maintainer is incredibly active and constantly pushing the development forward. I'm currently working on a side-scroller and am really excited to see if I can get it running on the switch.
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#8Hajime Hoshi is a true gem and the Go ecosystem is incredibly lucky to have him. He was very approachable and friendly when I was toying with game development in Go. I should get back to finishing that game in Ebiten. The tooling alone puts a smile on my face.
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#9This is awesome. Sad to see the work is kind of “wasted” in the sense that it’s not officially supported and any update to Go will likely break it. But I learned a lot reading this article.
It's apparent that the author intends to maintain this across Go version upgrades. Part of this work is a custom patch format to make it easier to manage the changes to the Go runtime (https://ebiten.org/blog/native_compiling_for_nintendo_switch...).
The author also explicitly stated that he did not expect major work to upgrade to a new Go version in https://ebiten.org/blog/native_compiling_for_nintendo_switch....
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#10Been using Ebiten for close to two years. One of, if not the nicest 2D engines I've used.
Nice to see Hoshi's work shared here.