Tag: engine

I've long wondered if I should add a scripting language to my game engine. I know that most game engines could do without such a feature but I just recently came across Chibi-Scheme, a library that allows the use of Scheme lisp scripting for C programs.

I like Lisp. I use it a lot when customizing my Emacs environment (using ELisp). There's something about it's syntax and different way to structure programs that appeals to my programmer brain. I've toyed with other Lisp flavors but never had a strong enough reason to continue using them. With Chibi-scheme I may have found that reason.

I am aware that Lisp is not as widespread as Lua or Javascript. And that choosing it might limit the number of potential people to try out my game engine. But as I've been telling myself over and over, this is a self-learning project. So it's okay …