DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019)

OK, so I&#x27;m going to be a grumpy old man ...<p>My eyesight isn&#x27;t great, so I use the &quot;Zoom&quot; function on Firefox to increase the font size. But the text now doesn&#x27;t wrap, and I&#x27;m constantly scrolling from side-to-side to be able to read the text. It&#x27;s tedious in the extreme.<p>Screen shot here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solipsys.co.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;daScript.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solipsys.co.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;daScript.png</a><p>Magnification, line truncation, and scroll bar indicated.<p>* Why doesn&#x27;t the text wrap to the window size? No idea.<p>* Why is it written like this? No idea.<p>Annoying, irritating, and so unnecessary.

Nice one, it is nice to see an increase in more productive languages offering compilation as part of their toolchain capabilities.

Curiously the daScript repository goes back to 2008, when it contained a URI parser: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GaijinEntertainment&#x2F;daScript&#x2F;tree&#x2F;262ca4aecf26f9d399c27e592f6246c4b7f74fb6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GaijinEntertainment&#x2F;daScript&#x2F;tree&#x2F;262ca4a...</a><p>Ten years later, in 2018, someone added a basic lexer for &quot;YZG&quot; to the repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GaijinEntertainment&#x2F;daScript&#x2F;commit&#x2F;215d50a2f84f630bde7369d508730baa51f951df" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GaijinEntertainment&#x2F;daScript&#x2F;commit&#x2F;215d5...</a>

Too early to say anything but looks like it could replace lua as game&#x27;s default scripting language. Suggestion to authors: copy Golang tour

Looks really interesting. Nice approach and interesting featureset. I’ll have to keep an eye on it.<p>Currently, it seems to be lacking documentation on how to embed and interoperate with C++, though, so have no idea how easy it is to get working (especially AOT vs interpreted and interop with templated C++ code).

Used by Gaijin Entertainment and compiled and run on Nintendo Switch are two things that caught my eye. I will have to check it out for use in place of LuaJit.

Compare to Nim?