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goblog: A proof-of-concept blog in Go

16Nov2009
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As if I wasn't bored enough, I've written a proof-of-concept blog using Go, that new language out of Google. I blogged about this language before, but I wanted to give it a real test drive, so I came up with this.

goblog on github

Pointers ahoy

The first thing I noticed when I got started was pointer trouble on my part. Go still has pointers like in C, but some of the syntax smooths over the differences.

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Tea: Simple 2D Ruby game dev

Submitted by tung on Nov 15, 2009
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For simpler games from a simpler age.

Tea is a simple 2D game development library for Ruby. It’s designed with these things in mind:

  • 0 is better than 1, and 1 is better than 2.
  • Simplicity beats speed.
  • Value and convenience can sometimes beat simplicity.
  • Procedural beats object-oriented in a dead-heat.

The aim of Tea is to bring back some of the grass roots game development that things like QBASIC fostered. By staying unobtrusive and out of the way, Tea lets you focus on your game or demo, and not the pointy bits that are part of many game engines and APIs.

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