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What's it like being a resident bad@$$?

In all seriousness, what's it like running a company using a language you built or is there only a couple of other employees? Also, I guess you're not worrying about bitrot as you can maintain it yourself and it doesn't need anything other than lua to run correct? Also, why did you originally pick lua. I'm gonna stop and read the articles now :).

Are you aware that TIC-80 supports moonscript? It's one of the better PICO-8 "clones" out there.

https://nesbox.itch.io/tic

https://github.com/nesbox/tic.computer/wiki#cartridge-metada...

Is that open source? I'm wondering if it uses SDL or a similar library - binaries look pretty small.

No source code, but looking at the Windows binary it's using a statically linked copy of SDL 2.

Plus that file's about 2 MB, so really not surprisingly small.

A similar project, uses SDL, is open source, and came from antirez (of redis fame), LOAD81:

    http://github.com/antirez/load81.git

I am, and I'm pretty exited about it. I haven't had a chance to work with it yet but I might mess around with it next ludum dare.

The font you are using looks broken to me. (Win 10, Firefox)

At 100% scaling, every "i" clearly looks like a "1". It reads "MoonScr1pt" for me: https://i.imgur.com/Ti12E5I.png

If I zoom in or out in the browser the i looks ok again.

I don't see that at all. Maybe you found a bug for Win10/FF? I am on Win7/FF.

Same for me as well: http://i.imgur.com/U0Cl2Sq.png

Win 10, Chrome 58

Exactly the same issue for me too. My configuration is Win 8.1 and the Firefox 53. I should add that only the font used to represent code has this issue. Other fonts are okay.

Dude, this is neat. Itch.io is a great site, I've bought a few things through it.

I like how your HN profile page mentions only MoonScript and not itch.io, though, in that the former is an open source project and the latter is a company :)

He's a very modest dude, so I make sure to advertise for him on HN whenever the chance arises.

I've been following him since the early days of itch.io and the progress he's made with it is astounding.

I was just looking at love2d, I don't know much about it. My son is 8 and is very bored with Scratch. A once over the documentation makes me think love2d might be a good fit for a next step from Scratch. How is the love2d community and is it active?

The love2d community is definitely still active, especially on IRC. Some of the nicest folks I've ever spoken to over the internet.

I can't recommend the language or its community highly enough.

A couple of friends just successfully launched a commercial game on android/ios/steam using love2d, and they're really happy with the results.

I couldn't believe it was made with lua, it runs really smooth.

http://midipixel.com/warlockstower/

The love2d source code is in C++. I believe Lua interpreter was embedded as a scripting mechanism

https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/src

AFAIK, LÖVE integrates LuaJIT.

Why wouldn't it run smooth if it was made with Lua?

Processing may also be a good choice.

I learned lua and love2d last year and found them ... lovely! Hadn't done any graphics programming in about 20 years, and thoroughly enjoyed the process. What was really great was the ability to target multiple platforms. I even wrote an SVG library @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/svglover and a roguelike @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/zomia for the 2016 Annual Roguelike Release Party (ARRP).

love2d is great. I've dabbled with a bunch of game engines and am an avid lover of Processing and p5.js, both of which are great for learning to code. Love2d is right up there with them, though the documentation is less newbie-oriented, IMO. The best thing for you to do would be to go through this tutorial yourself and then decide if you think it would be appropriate for your kid. http://sheepolution.com/learn/book/contents

For a 8 year old, Löve might be a bit hard.

At our weekly CoderDojo in Zurich, we're using love2d (and processing) as the next step for the kids that over 10 years and who are comfortable with typing.

Both just work!

https://www.meetup.com/Coder-Dojo-Zurich/

Your welcome to join with your kids or as a mentor if you happen to be not too far away...

Woah, thanks so much for itch.io - I'm a big fan of indie games and your site is amazing.

Thank you for Moonscript!

> The biggest open source project is a web framework for Open Resty: https://github.com/leafo/lapis

Looks like lapis is ~15K lines. The Howl editor has ~58K lines (including bindings and tests) - making it bigger, technically ;)

Hi, I made the far back side of MoonScript named ACPUL 5 years ago. I built it from the ground: high performance VM and expression based CPU assembly. It's growth up from small new language to high end gamedev mobile OS.

Images: http://acpul.tumblr.com/

Code sample: https://github.com/d08ble/acpul-demo/tree/master/dota

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAcv12eBqcc

I have to say that if I see last update in changelog from few years ago I assume the project is dead and one should not use it.

You should disabuse yourself of this notion, a lot of mature projects don't get updates because they don't have (known) bugs or are feature complete.

I don't do this with everything, it depends on what the project is and what my use of it would be. But with libraries or anything that would be a part of something you might find it won't work with your next OS update, browser update (js libraries), or it requires dependencies that are obsolete. I think it's a fair and quick filter.

If you were to devote more time to MoonScript, what would be the likelihood of including Lua 5.3 compatibility?

This post was timely for me as I'm working on a game project that could benefit greatly from each of the projects you mentioned. Thanks!

That's a lot of work you've done alone :)

Itch.io looks pretty nice except for the scrollbar on the left, I suggest you to add this in the css to make it look nicer on webkit browsers: https://gist.github.com/Ivanca/95e171e3d575001dd17787ec490c6...

I'm thinking of creating a blackbox site building service in lua and store people's code in db.