Use a different programming language

Feature Suggestions
#1

so I hate JavaScript and uhhhh I don’t like to code in JavaScript so can you change the programming language or maybe have a option to code in other programming language like python,lua or typescript or make a completely new programming language like wickscript because I hate JavaScript so PLEASE ADD ANOTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES @moderators

#2

The big problem with making a new programming language is that’ll need to somehow compile back to plain JS. Wick (and all interactive sites) use JavaScript, what we can do is put CoffeeScript into Wick (not responsible if that makes your games slow).

#3

The following JS:

var speed = 7;

if(isKeyDown('left')) {
    this.x -= speed;
}
if(isKeyDown('right')) {
    this.x += speed;
}
if(isKeyDown('up')) {
    this.y -= speed;
}
if(isKeyDown('down')) {
    this.y += speed;
}

Can be converted to the following CoffeeScript:

speed = 7
if isKeyDown 'left'
  @x -= speed
if isKeyDown 'right'
  @x += speed
if isKeyDown 'up'
  @y -= speed
if isKeyDown 'down'
  @y += speed

# ---
# generated by js2coffee 2.2.0

Which will turn into the following JS:

var speed;

speed = 7;

if (isKeyDown('left')) {
  this.x -= speed;
}

if (isKeyDown('right')) {
  this.x += speed;
}

if (isKeyDown('up')) {
  this.y -= speed;
}

if (isKeyDown('down')) {
  this.y += speed;
}

// ---
// generated by coffee-script 1.9.2
#4

there used to be a fork of wick editor that worked with lua and i swear it worked properly at the time, but i tried it again just now and it doesn’t for some reason.

in any case, i don’t think we plan to introduce new languages. it kinda opens up more ways the engine can go wrong.

#5

Maybe one day I’ll somehow add CoffeeScript Support to some kind of plugin loader…

#6

aw dang it :sob: :sob: :sob:

#7

maybe u should add python or lua

#8

That would require some extended WebAssembly knowledge, and I have no idea how to use it.

#9

okay is coffeescript has a lot of stuff that give us headache or make no sense like javascript

#10

Maybe the problem is that you don’t understand code very well? JS is inspired by Java and C, but CoffeeScript took JS and made it more like Ruby.

#11

whats ruby? and wdym by c c++ or c#?