Of course, we need to give an honorable mention to the `awk` raycaster from 9 years ago. https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster/tree/master
Cool Easter egg: https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster/blob/master/awkaste...
A Raycaster in Bash
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Re: A Raycaster in Bash
#32Wow, that’s an insane challenge. I can’t believe that’s even possible.
Re: A Raycaster in Bash
#33Sadly I can't get this working. It just throws up the view into a file called buffered for whatever reason and exits immediately :(
Re: A Raycaster in Bash
#34Sadly I can't get this working. It just throws up the view into a file called buffered for whatever reason and exits immediately :(
try `bash game.bash 2>errors` and see the content of that file when the game exits
Re: A Raycaster in Bash
#35[flagged]
Please stop making accounts to break HN's rules with. It will eventually get your main account banned as well.
Re: A Raycaster in Bash
#36"bash is slow."
That's in part why I do not use it for scripting. I do not use it for interactive use either.
Some popular Linux distributions also avoid bash as a scripting shell.