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Replaces NTSL in favour of João, a new programming language #12517
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The debug verb for running João now at least works, and this extools binary has a working copy of João to call. Commit for this extools binary: yogstation13/extools@97510dc
Doing this has been a huge pain, but, hey, it kinda displays syntax highlighting incorrectly. Woo! I don't really know what commit this dll binary is from and I don't really care.
...except for the code editor 😉 Honestly mildly embarrassed at how long it took me to write this but that's neither here nor there
The syntax highlighting isn't very comprehensive nor well-programmed but it is now working. Huzzah!
It works! 🎊 Accidentally removed the Poly achievements with this commit but I pinky promise to put them back later. <3
This is... probably an improvement.
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How are we supposed to pronounce the name of this language? |
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JO-AIE-UH |
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so your genius plan here is to give people access to a full programming language virtual machine, written in C++ RUNNING ON YOUR SERVER? |
Idk why anyone bothers with these programming PRs because the only people who use them are exploiters and coders (coders don't play the game anyway). |
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honestly the more I thought about this the more I realised this is just what byond already is so jokes on me I guess. |
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WHERE JO-A-AEY |
soon ;-; |
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Can't really be worked on until #13479 is merged or otherwise resolved. The language itself however is in active development; you can see my progress over the last year at this repository. |
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Will this have inbuilt support for Regex? Would be really nice for comms stuff |
Probably not at launch, but I do want to set up a basic regex engine eventually. |
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Cleaning up the old PRs. I'll notify you when auxmos is merged. Feel free to reopen now or anytime later, very cool project. |
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Summary
Hi guys, it's NTSL man again, finally here to pull the trigger and put it out of its misery.
NTSL has always been a slow and questionably-designed language, and when working on it I've always wanted to write a language of my own design, that could run faster and be more accessible to new programmers.
The Language
João is a programming language created by me over the last several months, with an actively-developed interpreter written in C++17. Jamie & others have greenlit me working on hooking it up to SS13 as a replacement for NTSL.
The new programming language is my reply to the design motifs of DM, with a design philosophy more akin to Lua. It has the goal of being minimalistic and relatively easy to pick-up and learn, as Lua is, while still having an object orientation that's analogous to DM's setup.
The Traffic Computer
This PR updates a lot of how the Traffic Computer looks and feels. It is now easier to navigate and far cleaner-looking. In addition, primitive syntax highlighting has been added to the programming window to improve the coding experience.
Wiki Documentation
The documentation is still a work in progress, as of writing. A partial doc has been written up as a Github Page thing, located here.
To-do Checklist
Changelog
🆑 Altoids
rscadd: The Traffic Computer (read: the NTSL computer) has gotten a glorious UI cleanup, with delightful TGUI polish!
rscadd: The Traffic Computer now attempts to do syntax highlighting on code written into it.
rscadd: Added Joao as the new telecomms scripting language. Check the PR, Discord, and elsewhere for documentation!
rscdel: Removed NTSL
bugfix: Fixed NTSL slowing the server down
tweak: Increased the maximum size and complexity of telecomms scripts to account for the faster programming language
spellcheck: The Traffic Computer finally has a description that (attempts) to explain what the hell it is.
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