Based on our record, Twine seems to be a lot more popular than Lobster. While we know about 276 links to Twine, we've tracked only 21 mentions of Lobster. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I think lobster does this. "Compile time reference counting / lifetime analysis / borrow checker."[1] "Reference Counting with cycle detection at exit, 95% of reference count ops removed at compile time thanks to lifetime analysis."[1] [1] https://strlen.com/lobster/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
I think the ability to open a window and do graphical stuff is actually pretty underrated in core language functionality. There's a few game-oriented programming languages like Lobster that put windowing and graphics in the core language functionality, and I think it's pretty neat. The biggest downside is that it's a lot to bite off, because you'll probably want to have standardized API functionality for a whole... Source: about 1 year ago
There is another language, Lobster, that uses lifetime analysis like Rust, but IIUC infers lifetimes completely automatically. It looks like the idea is still experimental - I'm interested to see how it goes. Source: about 1 year ago
I'm keeping an eye on Lobster though. It fixes most of Python's problems. It's way faster, has proper static typing, the import system is sane, etc. Source: about 1 year ago
Lobster (https://strlen.com/lobster/) appears to at least do lifetime analysis to reduce refcounting. I'm not sure about automatic interior mutability. I feel like there's a keyword here that can help find other compilers with similar features. Source: over 1 year ago
I think you and your kid would have fun designing a Choose Your Own Adventure game in Twine. https://twinery.org/ FWIW, there are a bunch of simple modern GUI builders, including GUI builders for the web, but none of them are popular, due to the sweet spot of supply and demand that Hypercard hit. When Hypercard launched, it came with every Mac, it was free, and there was nothing else like it available on... - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago
There's ChoiceScript by Choice Of Games. It's more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure. If you're hoping to make something with a fair amount of random events, you might want to check out Twine. Source: 5 months ago
You use something like https://twinery.org/ for creating the dialogues, and then write abstract code to handle that. Source: 5 months ago
The Twine website links to a few, along with thousands at IFDB; https://ifdb.org/search?searchbar=system%3Atwine And itch: https://itch.io/games/tag-twine See the Twinery for more, including the spec: https://twinery.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
The story is from my own mind, of course. I will maybe use Twine to help me with all the possible way to go, not sure yet. Source: 7 months ago
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