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I started playing with Chicken over the weekend because I was looking for a scheme that you could build binaries of and that had a lively ecosystem. I've really

I started playing with Chicken over the weekend because I was looking for a scheme that you could build binaries of and that had a lively ecosystem. I've really enjoyed it. So far I've mostly played with web stuff. Built a wrapper around makemkvcon for ripping some dvds I've been meaning to rip that'll do a little bit of automatic naming of output using the tv db. I was slightly worried that I'd start using v5 and then v6 would come out but it looked like they'd been working on it for a while so I figured I'd have some time on v5. Turns out I was wrong!

SomeHacker44 1mo ago
How would it be for a 2D game?
- trescenzi 1mo ago
  I’ve thought a tiny bit about this. I think I’d lean towards Guile for a game because of Hoot, wasm compiler, and Chickadee, little game library. But I’m remarkably unqualified to have a real opinion since I’ve used Chicken for 72 hours now.
- hellcow 1mo ago
  There's raylib and sdl2 eggs available. Those are a great place to start.
- fgh 1mo ago
  I am currently looking into simple options for using Scheme as a scripting language in a game written in C. So far, s7 made a good impression for embedding it, but I am also not that far into evaluating the actual performance. I looked a bit at Chicken, and it seemed possible to embed, but too complicated for my purposes.
  - ziotom78 1mo ago
    I would use Guile for that, its documentation about how to use it as a scripting language within a C program is excellent. It is being used by many projects for this purpose: GNU Cash, Lilypond, GNU Guix... I don't know about games, however.
    - fgh 1mo ago
      I had a look at Guile as well and it is great - but the simplicity of embedding s7 with just one header and C file made me go with it now. But for a more complex case, I would love to try Guile.
- shakna 1mo ago
  I've only made the one game with it. A lot more GUI apps. sdl is in the package manager, making it fairly easy to hook into, and "standard". From there its about the same as anything else. Because I was cross-compiling, I compiled to C and had a... Somewhat complicated Makefile for building Linux, Windows, Android binaries all at once. Debugging Android made me give up, in the end. The platform, not the tools I had, was the pain point.
p0w3n3d 1mo ago
By the way, what do you use to postprocess your DVDs? My experience is that DVDs had awful quality and got interlaced unless using a good player (like cyberlink powerdvd) which was always improving with the video greatly and deinterlacing it?

SomeHacker44 1mo ago

How would it be for a 2D game?

trescenzi 1mo ago
I’ve thought a tiny bit about this. I think I’d lean towards Guile for a game because of Hoot, wasm compiler, and Chickadee, little game library. But I’m remarkably unqualified to have a real opinion since I’ve used Chicken for 72 hours now.
hellcow 1mo ago
There's raylib and sdl2 eggs available. Those are a great place to start.
fgh 1mo ago
I am currently looking into simple options for using Scheme as a scripting language in a game written in C. So far, s7 made a good impression for embedding it, but I am also not that far into evaluating the actual performance. I looked a bit at Chicken, and it seemed possible to embed, but too complicated for my purposes.
- ziotom78 1mo ago
  I would use Guile for that, its documentation about how to use it as a scripting language within a C program is excellent. It is being used by many projects for this purpose: GNU Cash, Lilypond, GNU Guix... I don't know about games, however.
  - fgh 1mo ago
    I had a look at Guile as well and it is great - but the simplicity of embedding s7 with just one header and C file made me go with it now. But for a more complex case, I would love to try Guile.
shakna 1mo ago
I've only made the one game with it. A lot more GUI apps. sdl is in the package manager, making it fairly easy to hook into, and "standard". From there its about the same as anything else. Because I was cross-compiling, I compiled to C and had a... Somewhat complicated Makefile for building Linux, Windows, Android binaries all at once. Debugging Android made me give up, in the end. The platform, not the tools I had, was the pain point.

p0w3n3d 1mo ago

By the way, what do you use to postprocess your DVDs? My experience is that DVDs had awful quality and got interlaced unless using a good player (like cyberlink powerdvd) which was always improving with the video greatly and deinterlacing it?