Making My Own Programming Language and Coding a Game in It 

Using the default fundamental forces? Weak

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Would you be willing to share the code. That sounds cool

@@americansoil8260 sure, except um like the code is 174 exabytes so help

Thank you so much!

Me too

yup.

same

Is 587th subscription before exploding?

Are we really at a point where someone receives comments for choosing a letter that may be problematic in a COMPLETELY unrelated context? Is this really how far we have come?

Could somebody explain what does letter Z have to do with russia/ukraine situation??

@@alexstone691 Apparently, it's a Russian military symbol and it was used in propaganda or something like that

@@alexstone691 It's just a symbol so Russian forces can know who is ally. Now people for some reason can't see a "Z" anymore because it's like being satanic or something lol

too late, just added Z# to my resume

Memory management?

@@mek101whatif7 its not really like squirrel at all xD Maybe the name, but everything else completly different. (besides the fact they are both inspired by lua)

I'm finishing up writing my language, and then I'm going to write my OS in it.

Is it possible to built a language whose syntax is similar to python but can generate byte code like JAVA and perform like java to built mobile, web apps?

@@techlifejournal not sure

Haha that is so funny! I would love to see a future of every developer using Monkey Script 👀. It's weird that any teacher that made you program something doesn't check the code, but ha I guess you were lucky then! 😁

What language did you write the compiler in?

@@user-dh8oi2mk4f He said he used assembly

@@user-dh8oi2mk4f shut

@@Solomonwo ????

Exactly, because I honestly couldn’t care less about how it differs from the languages that were his inspiration, or that he could use it to make a game as simple as Pong-he left out the most interesting part, which is the process he went through to make it. I’m now wondering if he just re-skinned another language, by writing a translation layer that just converts everything he typed into the original language which already has a functional way to translate the higher level code into the code executed by the CPU or if he got down into x86 assembly code, and worked his way up from the bare metal. Or was it something in between? If there’s nothing inherently different going on that one of the million other languages we have, then we’re at a point where we’re just making it easier to read and write, which is kind of pointless when we could just keep working on LLMs so that they can just be given a description of the parts of the program you’re trying to write, and it just translates that into a binary that compiled for your CPU. Why edit code when you can just edit a bunch of pseudo code and comments like the kind a king might bark at peasants forced to do his bidding. Then debugging would just be like grading an English paper, and admonishing it for it’s mistakes.

​@@kernelpickle Agreed, the part I wanted to see was how he made his compiler. What you are thinking of is a "Source-to-source compiler." For example, coffeescript, which compiles to javascript. EDIT: That's a good question, I wouldn't know exactly how to create a binary off the top of my head without researching it. 1: You could package your compiler with GCC, then your compiler just translates it to a CPP file, (source-to-source) then just run it through GCC to create a binary, which would be kind of lame but it would work. 2: Or you could create an interpreted language (so not really a compiler) that just reads and runs your codes text file. It creates no binaries. To create a binary, you'd somehow have to translate it into machine code. I'm not exactly sure what's the best way to go about that, e.g. if there are some shortcuts without being an expert of machine code.

Good luck, it seems your project scale is much larger than mine 😁. I still have much to learn, and this project was just my attempt at making something without research and just diving in. I could definitely make something much better if I first saw how others have done it. I hope you get it working soon!

Anytime I hear "write once run everywhere", I keep hearing "write once debug everywhere" :D

@@SimGunther That’s also true! Ideally, the runtime would be implemented in a way that any runtime or interpret-time bugs that show up wouldn’t be platform specific. But I don’t really know what I’m doing so don’t count on it happening!

Maybe you could just compile it straight to WebAssembly, which is a bytecode standard. From that point you would only need on of the many WebAssembly compilers/JITs/interpreters to run it

I've been trying to design some syntax ideas for a custom language that I'm calling Aspen, it's gonna be just a bytecode compiler since idk how to do stuff like JIT compiling. I don't really know what I'm gonna do with the language or if I'm even gonna try to turn it into anything more than just some project I work on, but hopefully I can do something interesting with it. Definitely not a project as large as yours, though. Good luck with your language!

MY DREAM IS MAKING A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Congratulations! Making an interpreter or compiler is a huge task and really helps a developer level up.

what if make with this language a GameIngine cause it looks a little bit ez than c# or c++ , i hop u ready my comment and why not make one if u can (Or u can"t do that :O ) just kidding :) Why not just make a simple one and make updates on it im just saying

​@@itsAdopo_DevXDI'm designing a language right now, I'll think of making a discord server, but I'm not sure if you're old enough to be on discord after looking at your speech patterns.

@@somebody_2837 So not knowing english as a native language means they're underaged? Nice logic buddy.

@@FluffScripts No, you clearly never saw an underaged person on the internet. Many people whose first language isn't English are generally more articulate than this. Pay attention.

@@somebody_2837 You'd be surprised. I've been on the internet for over 14 years, I run an entire community and such. Quite able to distinguish, don't be so quick to judge people online.

Thank you very much!

Glad you enjoyed it! I had a lot of fun making it.

@@AstroSamDev it's always something magical when you enjoy what your doing

It was the interpreter (written in C++) running in debug mode, not the program he wrote in Z# :)

@@KanashimiMusic Did You Know There Is ZenScript(ZS!?!?)

@@madhuripendyala7930 one thats not relevant and 2 thats ZS not Z#

@@azrealIPM ZenScript and Z# both have the same file name .ZS

@@LostGameDev102 actually that's pretty interesting but still not relevant to what Nyde said would be relevant in general comment section though

Compiling to brainf*ck sounds fun, that's like a completely different level of messed up

Brainfcuk XD

you can convert python code to java with chatGPT :)) maybe he might help you learn to code better, i'm using it and i learnt so much

same

Hi like yours it’s mine to create my own language can you guide me in this where to begin and what to learn, if any guides to follow?

@@asapstudios3893 I recommend working on splitting strings into tokens, such as: "5 + 5" converted to num_5 plus num_5. After this you can add functions to these tokens, such as plus being add first value to second value. I personally did not follow any guides but I recommend checking youtube for building a programming language. mine is built in c#, but I recommend c++. Any compiled language works to be honest. Wish you luck with your language!

Thank you! I hope that by the time you do use it, I've made it better. There are issues with syntax pickiness, because the code needs to be absolutely perfect, even down to the spaces and parenthesis.

Wow, thank you! I'm so happy you enjoyed! 😁

more info: display sucks, its the most difficult thing to use, you need to draw and reasset it

Damn I was thinking of doing something similar but I knew it would have been very inefficient, good luck.

@@SCRPXXL Thanks bro, the language will be getting new functions called spriting`s (display,if i am pressed(),etc.)

Make a discord server for its devolpment. I am very intrested in it

Yes the discord server idea is lit

You are right, I think there are some good use cases like that. I'm a person who normally uses C-based languages, which do end with the ";". I just wanted to make something a bit more unique, and a change of pace from what I normally might use. (Even though it's been pointed out to me that Z# really resembles python, so maybe not THAT unique.)

About 1.5 months, but I still took breaks and also had school

I don't get your drift. Syntax and semantics are what define a language, how can they be seen as different projects?

@@petermuller608 Not sure, where I should start to explain. I assume you don't know much about Lisp. Lisps have a very simple syntax: (operation arguments...) This syntax is also called S-Expressions. For example (+ 1 2) would be "1 + 2" or (+ 1 (* 2 3)) would be "1 + 2 * 3". The operation doesn't need to be a function. It can be what most languages use keywords or special syntax for. Most Lisps are garbage collected dynamically typed languages, similar to python. But it's possible to use this simple syntax for any kind of language. And there are some lower level Lisps like Scopes and Dale. Same basic syntax, but different semantics. What I mean when talking about semantics, is what features the language has. Dymamic/Static typing, GC, structs/classes, type system, borrow checker, compile time features, etc. There are many ways you could syntactically define them. They would still stay the same feature. If you have some general intermediate representation, which should basically be s-expressions, never as texutal representation, but as trees of symbols and sublists, you could have multiple syntaxes to map to the same semantics. There could be some general syntaxes like simple s-expressions or something indentation based like Scopes list notation (SLN), or some special purpose syntaxes, which only work with this specific semantic. I hope, this helps you to understand, else feel free to ask more concrete questions. I might also add some examples.

@@porky1118 thanks for the in-depth reply! Since most languages are parsed into an AST, and an AST can be represented using s-expressions, isn't this already what you hope for?

@@petermuller608 No, since language ASTs are normally not exposed to the programmer/user. The exact ASTs are some compiler internal thing, which might just change in the next version. But if some language had some stable AST, and exposes it to the user, we're almost there. Writing an S-Expression to AST converter should be pretty simple. (writing an S-Expression to language text converter also shouldn't be too difficult, but that seems like a lot of boilerplate without any real benefits) It would be best, if the compiler would just take in S-Expressions (preferably as lists, not as text) instead of some textual representation. (it should also be easy to have visual representations of S-Expressions, and that tool would basically work with any language; maybe you would need to add some language specific definitions to make it usable; I could go on a lot, but not sure, if it would even interest you).

That's awesome! I hope you learned a lot while making it, I sure did! 😄

Really cool idea! I've actually been considering a project like that, similar to the projects jdh or Ben Eater have made. The biggest issue with building a custom processor though (instead of using something like a 6502 or similar) is a low efficiency and it could be slower.

@@AstroSamDev If you do end up doing that, I would suggest making it pipelined. This adds complexity, yes, but it allows for (some) parallelism. This (simplifying a bit) allows for more instructions to be completed per unit time. I'm actually working on a pipelined 16-bit processor with more advanced features than I've seen of 16-bit home-built processors before. Those being pipelining, 8 input and 8 output ports (usually there's only 1 or 2), integrated floating point hardware, and a couple more odds and ends. So if you have any questions or confusions, you can ask me.

Javidx9 has some really good tutorials on creating games without using modern game engines like SDL, check his channel out!

Start simple, I'd recommend making an interpreter for a simple already existing language, like brainf*ck (it has only like 5 instructions), then expanding upon that knowledge. to create your own unique language and syntax

I forget the exact method I used, but it involved calculating the angle using the distance the ball was from the center of the paddle and some trigonometry functions.

I'm happy you enjoyed the video! Making a tutorial on this project would actually be pretty difficult, and would take multiple videos. What would you like to learn from a tutorial, if I made one? If you wish I could make a video explaining how it works, without doing much actual C++ programming. 🤔

@@AstroSamDev yes 👏 please, I would really appreciate that. Thank you

@@AstroSamDev I would love to see how the interpreter was designed and implemented

I'd like to see how the interpreter parses the code

You can always define other ways to spread an expression over multiple lines. In python newlines and indentation are ordinarily integral syntax, but they are ignored inside enclosing brackets. This automatically applies to lists and function parameters. I agree that finishing statements with semicolons is more unambiguous, but on the other hand, for the majority of code you write they're just a tedious formality. To each their own :)

"You can't really do this without semicolons" Sure you can. A statement ends when the scope is complete and an expression is complete, and so any open parens or unresolved binary operators keep it open. As 20 year veteran of C++, I'm used to them, but I also see they are in 99% of cases just redundant visual noise. "not having to declare param types and return types overall harms code readability" Concur. A function that can accept anything and then blow up at runtime is not as robust as a function that can accept a contract-fulfilling interface caught at parse time.

Well I did attempt to make something similar to the languages I use often with the things I like about them. Mine reminds me most of C#, PHP, and Python. Thanks for watching! :)

@@AstroSamDev the second language that I made remind me little bit to Typescript and Golang

While technically true, it still important to consider when designing the language. A dynamically typed language for example would not suit well as a compiled language since you would need to do a lot of runtime type checking & assertions. At that point you might as well just use an interpreter to do it for you.

I would check out CodeX by openAI

I'd start by making a Brainf*ck interpreter or something first, it has super simple instructions and could be done in less than 1 day. Then adapt and add your own things to make it unique and learn. Have fun programming! 😄

@@AstroSamDev The problem with a bf interpreter is that it doesn't really teach you how to parse grammar. All you need is a loop and a switch statement, which doesn't accurately reflect how you would go about parsing a real language. Nonetheless, it does give you some basic knowledge of how lexers work, because a loop and a switch statement is all they really are.

It's just a stupid attempt at promoting his own skills.

Don't worry, I totally agree. I actually mostly use languages that use semicolons, and I think I prefer them. There may be a change in the future that enables them in ZSharp.

Agree, and it's source is also terrible. It literally just searches for words in strings and wraps it around a C++ function. It doesn't even have a lexer, parser or a bytecode compiler.

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