Maybe you guys could expand the coding languages used in A8. I know JavaScript better than C++ or Lite-C. Also, it could run in Java or something like it.

What???

Lite-C is great!!!

JCL often explaines why he doesen't want to use C++ or javascript -> it too complicated for beginners and Lite-C isn't old and many users like it!

Please don't change the language !

do you have any idea how much it took to stabilze lite-c ?
2 years.

Anyhow, javasctipt,lite-c,c,c++,java are all from same language family even you could count php and python as their relatives. If you know one of these languages, it is not very hard to learn others. In fact main idea of the programming is not about knowing the language, everyone knows c++ but note everyone can come up with an engine like cryengine3.(just like everyone knows English, but not everyone is Shakespaere). It's about your "design" and methods of programming. It's about your algorithms. Once you have a proper algorithm, language doesnot really matter, it is only the tool for implemeantation. K, enougn of this crap... Lite-c is very smiliar to languages you counted, only easier. It is actually alot easier than Java.

Also, no A8 in the horizon.

i don't think javascript would be more complicated than lite-c. rather a bit easier since javascript has automatic memory management, more convenient string handling, dynamic arrays and so on.

you can already use javascript with a7 though. you just have to create a wrapper like i did for python for example.

http://code.google.com/p/v8/
it would be quite interesting to use google's v8 javascript engine with a7. their jit compiler is supposed to be really fast.

i dont think they should change the language- i think there should be more variety in A8. like javascript,c++,etc.

javascript can handle memory management, but you can write incredibly inefficient code with it. lite-c is so restrictive that these errors occur less often.

yes. thaat makes sense.

the restrictiveness of lite-c can also be quite annoying and a productivity killer though and the nature of lite-c can lead to different kinds of very hard to find errors. for most projects i prefer a higher level language than c.

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i have looked a bit into javascript engines and now i think for a7 tracemonkey would be better than v8 since it supports coroutines which would come in handy for doing a lite-c like scheduler. unfortunately there don't seem to be any good tools for helping with generating the wrapper code. doing it manually would be quite an effort.

ok. again, that makes sense

actually the engine only would need an official high quality .net wrapper. then everyone could use the .net version of their favorite language.

for my taste the c# wrapper by stromausfall requires to write way too verbose code and it doesn't really have an elegant object oriented design but i haven't checked recent versions so i am sorry if i am wrong.