Is there planned console support? I assume that's the hardest group of platforms for any engine to target, and is part of why Unity and Unreal have such a stranglehold on the market.
The ideal case is for an engine such to embrace Beef and work through those issues.
Chucklefish was an early(ish) adopter of Rust and tried to maintain an XBox/PS4/Switch toolchain but eventually abandoned it. Rust is probably a good example of a popular "alternative language" that may pave the way for BeefLang and others to work their way into those spaces.
> The issue of how to interact with the hardware itself and how to participate in the toolchain provided by the console vendor is much more difficult and is outside the scope of the language/compiler.
I've been looking for a language that would allow gradual transition from C++ for example. If you have a C++ SDK, you could still write your whole engine or just some modules in Beef.
If you do have more control then you're in a much better situation, but crossing language boundaries can still be tricky.
Generally you end up having to write "wrapper" code to make those language boundaries palatable. There are code generators like SWIG to handle those things, and some languages like Zig handle importing of c headers, but if the C++ library your trying to use is returning a std::shared_ptr then that's not going to be a very pleasant construct for you to attempt to work with in any language besides C++.
If you can split your code sections into simple and clean C-like interfaces then the job becomes much, much easier.