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This is the second part of a series of post. The previous and first post was Examples of Metaprogramming - Part 1. I wrote about a “card editor”, where I had multiple types of cards and i wanted to manipulated them sometimes uniformely (for example when I want to spawn a new card or move it) sometimes in a way specific to the type (for example when deciding what to render).
I’m developing a puzzle/strategy game using a custom engine, a project I work on for fun in my free time. For this, I’m using Jai, the programming language created by Jonathan Blow. It’s been a great opportunity to explore Jai’s features, and I particularly appreciate its lack of bloat and fast compile times. Its metaprogramming system is the most comprehensive I’ve…
This blogpost is the result of an hour of funny mess-around that took place a few days ago just before starting the work day. I am no way an expert in this field, this is just couple of things that I found working when thinking about the concept of “why can’t I change the location of the stack in a program?”. I hope this post can encourage some people to experiment with low level…