Stream: beginners

Topic: projects in roc


view this post on Zulip Chad Stearns (Sep 18 2021 at 20:03):

I've been thinking about making a video game. Is Roc ready for that kind of project?

view this post on Zulip Chad Stearns (Sep 18 2021 at 20:03):

I am out of touch with the state of things regarding actually using Roc.

view this post on Zulip Folkert de Vries (Sep 18 2021 at 20:16):

video as in "with graphics"

view this post on Zulip Folkert de Vries (Sep 18 2021 at 20:16):

seems a bit early to me, really depends on how much of it you want to be in roc

view this post on Zulip Chad Stearns (Sep 18 2021 at 20:18):

I guess there isnt any kind of GUI package as of right now right? So I would have to make a platform for doing GUIs in Roc?

view this post on Zulip Chad Stearns (Sep 18 2021 at 20:18):

I am less turned off by having to do low level stuff like that than I am questions of if these things are even possible right now.

view this post on Zulip Folkert de Vries (Sep 18 2021 at 20:18):

exactly

view this post on Zulip Folkert de Vries (Sep 18 2021 at 20:19):

well another inconvenient thing right now is that we can really only expose concrete types

view this post on Zulip Folkert de Vries (Sep 18 2021 at 20:19):

in this case, the Model or State

view this post on Zulip Folkert de Vries (Sep 18 2021 at 20:20):

so changes to the definition of Model in roc would likely require changes on the platform side

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Sep 18 2021 at 23:37):

but you could hack around that for nwo

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Sep 18 2021 at 23:37):

*now

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Sep 18 2021 at 23:38):

by hardcoding your one application's model into the platform, then make it nicer once we support that in the future :big_smile:

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Sep 18 2021 at 23:38):

I'm pretty busy the next two weeks but in general I'd be happy to help you get that off the ground @Chad Stearns!

view this post on Zulip Chad Stearns (Sep 19 2021 at 20:42):

That sounds great @Richard Feldman ! I'll sync up with you in a few weeks then.


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