https://infinitelimit.net/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Infinite Limit Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:43:35 +0100 https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/prototype-driven-development/ Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:43:35 +0100 https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/prototype-driven-development/ I’ve been working on Fang for almost 2 months now (time flies, wow), and it’s actually been getting quite close to some semblance of feature-completeness. But, something I have known for most of the time I’ve been working on it is that what Fang looks like right now isn’t 100% going to be its final form. A programming language is rather complicated, even with the restrictions I put on myself for Fang, and without a considerable amount of intuition and experience, getting the design right on the first attempt is unlikely. https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/tests-of-reluctance/ Tue, 16 May 2023 13:20:00 +0100 https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/tests-of-reluctance/ Happy to say, I made plenty of progress over the past week, after a slight interlude. Unfortunately, that will make this post a bit of a long one. Progress When I left last time, I’d been working on getting memory operations (pointers and dereferencing) working correctly. After that, I managed to work my way through array definitions, initialisations and subscript accessing. There was a bit of a tricky time getting assignments to work correctly, but super satisfying once it was working. https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/referential-treatment/ Sat, 06 May 2023 15:09:19 +0100 https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/referential-treatment/ Last time, I had just gotten functions to work reliably, after a lot of puzzling out how the stack frame was going to work on ARM64, at least as a model for simpler platforms. Since then, I started trying to implement memory pointer operations: converting variables to pointers and dereferencing them into values, as well as assigning to them through a pointer. Getting and using pointers in expressions wasn’t too bad to get working, but the assignment proved to be a problem. https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/fang-a-language-with-bite/ Thu, 04 May 2023 06:54:38 +0100 https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/fang-a-language-with-bite/ For the past couple weeks, I’ve been attempting the daunting task of designing and implementing a programming language. I’ve wanted to do this for a number of years, especially since Bob Nystrom released Crafting Interpreters a little while ago, and now felt like a good time to try. I had a pretty terrible time of the Compilers course I took at univeristy and I kind of want to prove to myself that I have the ability to make something that actually works, without caveat. https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/minimum-viable-beginnings/ Wed, 03 May 2023 10:30:00 +0100 https://infinitelimit.net/posts/2023/minimum-viable-beginnings/ I’ve been thinking about putting up my own blog/web journal for months, but I finally bit the bullet today. It’s fairly simple, quick and dirty, because I want to focus on delivering my ideas (and noodling on other projects) rather than obsessing about how this site works. If you’ve followed me for a long time, you might remember that “infinitelimit.net” was a “web-zine-blog” for developing games on Fantasy Consoles like the PICO-8 and TIC-80, but I abandoned the idea after a couple months.