Welcome! I'm Evan Ovadia, a software architect, hobbyist game developer, and lead for the Vale Programming Language .
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Three years, two states, and one pandemic ago, I wrote about a very weird idea: what if the type system could track which data existed before a pure call, to eliminate its memory safety overhead? 0
It's a wise saying, because we game developers have so much fun making the underlying foundations, that we never get around to adding the actual gameplay.
I've spent most of the last decade exploring this area (mainly to design Vale 's memory safety) and I've discovered some surprising things .
After many years of development, the Vale compiler just hit its 100,000th line of code.
Zeke: "Wait, so with generational references, we now have four ways to do memory safety?"
You all know me, I love exploring new memory safety approaches and blending them together in weird ways.
Every March, developers worldwide each try to make a roguelike game in less than 168 hours as part of the 7DRL Challenge . Roguelike games are hard , involving procedural level generation, pathfinding, line-of-sight algorithms, and more dijkstra maps than you can imagine.
Have you ever had a weird idea, and then it worked, but you can't really believe it?
I've had some pretty surreal experiences while making Vale. 0 The weirdest was when I realized the hidden fundamental truth beneath a lot of the programming languages we use today.
Ante has taken the first step towards something we all thought was impossible: blending reference counting and borrow checking without run-time crashes. 0
Single ownership is one of those concepts that's both easier and more powerful than we realize.
Anyone trying to make a new mainstream language is completely insane, unless they're backed by a large corporation. 0