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0 pointsthrown_223y ago0 comments

>Functional languages are inherently difficult to develop applications that require state to change in non-deterministic ways. In fact, I challenge you to develop a first-person shooter in Haskell (Have fun).

Don't know about Haskell but it would be very fun to do it in Lisp.

Performance sold separately.

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mikedelago3y ago

Common lisp has a "pretty OK" story for calling C code whenever some speed is needed [0,1]. In my opinion, they suffer from some of the documentation/quick start problems that common lisp has, but they're otherwise usable.

Some of Naughty Dog's late 90's/early 2000's games (Jak and Daxter, Jak II) were written in a lisp called GOAL, Game Oriented Assembly Lisp [2]

[0] https://github.com/rpav/cl-autowrap [1] https://github.com/cffi/cffi#cffic2ffi [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

deviantbit3y ago

Then try it.

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