Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
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Re: Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
#2https://castle-engine.io/why_pascal
I'm gonna have to put a damper on things, here. Most of the reasons listed are things available in any other modern language (safety, cross-platformness, libraries...) but one of the things cited is readability.
I work on Pascal code 8 hours a day, and it is not more readable then conventional C syntax ; I'd argue it's much less. The fact that you need to use entire words to denote syntax makes it much harder for your brain to parse things : Instead of immediately seeing "this is code structure" and "this is actual code", you need to actually read the words to make that distinction. It is very counter-productive and a bad design solution, imo.
I feel like this page was written 20 years ago. The reasons would have made quite a lot more sense back then, notably about the type safety.
Re: Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
#3Oooh, Pascal. This'll tickle the fancy of some old-school demo and game coders. I bet we'll see some unique things emerge from this.
Re: Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
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Re: Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
#5Ok I’ve got a hacker challenge for the more creatively-inclined: if I wanted to stretch “cross platform” to web (and thus webVR?), how might I wrap/integrate/emulate/polyfill/whatever this?
EDIT: after a quick search the answer is a resounding “you can do it, but yikes.” Multiple people reference custom compilers, which I’m guessing are beyond my reach…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12029566
EDIT 2: wow nvm it’s on their roadmap! Their “why pascal” page says it’s already supported, but i think thats more hopeful than contractual.
Coming soon (roadmap):
Oculus (VR) (we have the hardware to test)
WebGL (FPC can compile to WebAssembly)
XBox (we have the hardware to test).
https://castle-engine.io/features#_cross_platform
Highly recommend the “Why pascal” page in general, the most interesting part of the project to a passerby like me:
Re: Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
#6How fancy, hopefully the project is successful - interesting language choice, always have put "Pascal" as an out-of-date language, but clearly I was wrong
Re: Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
#7Oooh, Pascal. This'll tickle the fancy of some old-school demo and game coders. I bet we'll see some unique things emerge from this.
I learned to really program in Delphi, before that it was PHP. Pascal and derivatives still hold a special place in my heart. I never imagined nee development would be done with it!
Re: Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
#8I have a feeling those pascal developers are getting stuff done super productively.
Re: Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
#9How fancy, hopefully the project is successful - interesting language choice, always have put "Pascal" as an out-of-date language, but clearly I was wrong
Turns out Go is mostly Pascal with curly braces and nobody is calling Go out of date ;)
Re: Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
#10I have a feeling those pascal developers are getting stuff done super productively.
Object Pascal is a modern programming language. It supports classes, units, properties, generics, interfaces, reflection, closures… Everything you expect from a modern OOP language.