Hello, Loop

[Corey Trampe]

I happend upon Loop while looking for Java alternatives for game development with libGDX.

I love the minimal syntax and sugary features. Yum, yum.

How difficult would it be to get running on Android in it's current state?

[Dhanji R. Prasanna]

Thanks! Kind words. It uses byte code generation, so you can output class files from it. If there is a way to translate class files into dex you may be in luck.

Let me know how it goes :)

Loop can implement interfaces in java so it should be trivial to call into.

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[Dhanji R. Prasanna]

I don't know if it will be fast enough on android though, compared to say, scala, because i havent spent much time optimizing method dispatch and such.

One alternative is to write a CodeEmitter plugin, which outputs Java source directly.

[Corey Trampe]

> If there is a way to translate class files into dex you may be in luck.

Well, there certainly is. I guess I assumed there would be more to it than that. (I'm still very new to both JVM & Android.)

> Loop can implement interfaces in java so it should be trivial to call into.

That sounds easy enough.

> I don't know if it will be fast enough on android though, compared to say, scala, because i havent spent much time optimizing method dispatch and such.

This could surely dampen my enthusiasm, Dhanji!

> One alternative is to write a CodeEmitter plugin, which outputs Java source directly.

That's an appealing idea, to operate CoffeeScript style. It's a tempting feature of Xtend (but not tempting enough, because I want to get away from Eclipse). I wonder why Mirah apparently dropped this feature.


Thanks for humoring me.

[Dhanji R. Prasanna]

On Sunday, April 21, 2013, Corey Trampe wrote:

> If there is a way to translate class files into dex you may be in luck.

Well, there certainly is. I guess I assumed there would be more to it than that. (I'm still very new to both JVM & Android.)

> Loop can implement interfaces in java so it should be trivial to call into.

That sounds easy enough.

> I don't know if it will be fast enough on android though, compared to say, scala, because i havent spent much time optimizing method dispatch and such.

This could surely dampen my enthusiasm, Dhanji!

Well it still may be fast enough, see how you go :P 

> One alternative is to write a CodeEmitter plugin, which outputs Java source directly.

That's an appealing idea, to operate CoffeeScript style. It's a tempting feature of Xtend (but not tempting enough, because I want to get away from Eclipse). I wonder why Mirah apparently dropped this feature.


Thanks for humoring me.

Sure thing, I'd love to hear how it goes