Posts on Infinite Limit

New Domains

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

One of my big goals for this year is to get back into playing tabletop RPGs (TTRPGs).

I was running a 4th edition D&D campaign for years, and then life forced me to put it on hiatus. It took 4 years, but I’m glad to say that I’m finally getting that ball rolling.

At the same time, my opinion of Wizards of the Coast soured greatly. Even from the sidelines, I was aware of the OGL crisis and the refresh of D&D 5th Edition and various controversies, and I decided it was time to move onto other games and other creators.

Prototype-Driven Development

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:43:35 +0100

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.

Tests of Reluctance

Tue, 16 May 2023 13:20:00 +0100

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.

Referential Treatment

Sat, 06 May 2023 15:09:19 +0100

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.

Fang - A Language With Bite

Thu, 04 May 2023 06:54:38 +0100

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.

Minimum Viable Beginnings

Wed, 03 May 2023 10:30:00 +0100

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. The content for that is still archived here: Infinite Limit Zine Archive.