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Can you elaborate what is so "interesting" about it? Yes I've been working on it for 10+ years (git history only since 2013), as a side project. There's actually one published game on Steam made with it, but its very simple. The one I am building now (linked from you link) is anything but simple.

Android build is part of CI so appears to be working. iOS is not, so may be broken but the code has always supported 6 platforms (win/lin/osx/ios/android/wasm).

As the link says, there aren't a lot of end-products made with it yet. It's mostly my side project, not sure why you are thinking there should be such a page, this is not a corp-backed megaproject making any kind of claims :)

Turns out, making a language popular in these days is hard. You may still find something interesting within though :)

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Right now, as a side project, 99% chance of vaporware on my part, I'm interested in writing a game with first release as an HTML5+canvas or WASM game. I'm not interested in writing it in C or Rust because of free time constraints, but I'm also not going to use anything JVM and I'm not going to use anything slow, heavy, and sloppy like python. Stretch goals include a multiplayer game server, then android and iOS apps.

Nim is my leading choice for prototyping this ATM. I can at least write the game logic core once, unified server and web client, and figure out secondary target platforms later.

Love2D is also a thing of interest, but I find the concept of actually using Lua to be cruel. Javascript is cruel too, but I at least have muscle memory and Stockholm syndrome from my day job, and Nim can target JS directly in a suitable enough way for using canvas.

Lobster, at a glance, looked like it could compete with or compliment Nim on my specific project idea.

I have no idea why you would even think a project like this is vaporware. It makes no claims that you can't test out by just downloading it and giving it a spin. You could have known its not vaporware in less time than you just spent arguing on HN: https://aardappel.github.io/lobster/getting_started.html

I can't help you much with your language choice since you appear to be very particular in what you want. Nim is likely more mature as a project, so I suggest you go with that instead.

> I have no idea why you would even think a project like this is vaporware.

I thought I was pretty clear that my project was vaporware, not yours.

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