GameLisp

GameLisp is a scripting language for Rust game development.

To get started, take a look at the homepage. Please note that GameLisp currently requires the latest version of nightly Rust.

Contributing

The most direct way to support the project's continued development is via Patreon. If you've found GameLisp to be useful or interesting, please consider contributing!

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome. All contributions submitted for inclusion in the work will be dual-licensed as described below, with no additional terms or conditions.

Roadmap

Short-term goals for the language, in descending order of priority:

• A test suite
• Making the crate Clippy-friendly
• Syntax-highlighting for more text editors
• Reporting the location of mismatched parentheses when parsing
• Working off some recent technical debt
  • Make gc timing more consistent when "unsafe-internals" is disabled
  • Optimize forn, collections, objects, and the write-barrier
  • Forbid names like iter from being bound as local variables
• Built-in functions for debugging
  • Convenient functions for running a REPL in-game
  • Some level of support for hotloading
• Auditing the crate's integer conversions and overflow (e.g. usize as u32 casts)
• Bindings to the regex and chrono crates, behind feature flags
• Generalizing let-macro - this will enable things like classmacros, patterns and struct definitions to be lexically scoped
• User-defined patterns - this will enable structs to participate in pattern-matching
• Multiple-value operations for the DequeOps trait, like set_slice and starts_with
• Adding an additional, larger demo to the playground
• Experimenting with reflection, raw classes or metaclasses, as potential replacements for mixins and classmacros

License

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.