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Legend. I've heard the original GOAL code is floating around somewhere online. Is there any chance Sony ever releases it into the public domain?

I notice another game today on here using ClojureScript. Apart from a lack of tooling / engine, is Lisp better suited for gamedev?

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One could endlessly debate the merits of Lisp dialects for game development, but at least in the Crash era it was a big win for us. Naughty Dog migrated away from Lisp in the PS3 era, I believe. (I was long gone by then.)

It was very powerful to be able to write code for critters and other animated objects in GOOL/GOAL because it was both conceptually simple and compiled into tiny amounts of code, which mattered a lot when you only had 2MB of RAM (half of which was video RAM if I recall correctly).

I've not heard of GOAL before - do you have a link to any references or articles about it?

The OpenGOAL project is very active at reimplementing the GOAL compiler and infrastructure of Jak 1.

https://blog.jakspeedruns.com/opengoal-project-update-septem...

Looks like GOOL was an early interpreted(?) lisp/scheme, and GOAL was a later complier/compiled version?

GOOL: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ba...

GOAL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

https://github.com/water111/jak-project

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