Questions tagged [functional]
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What are the challenges and benefits of writing games with a functional language?
While I know that functional languages aren't the most commonly used for game writing, there are a lot of benefits associate with them that seem like they would be interesting in any programming context. Especially the ease of parallelization I…
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What functional language is most suited to create games with?
I have had my eye on functional programming languages for a while, but am hesitating to actually get into them. But I think it's about time I at least starting glancing that direction to make sure I'm ready for anything.
I've seen talk of Haskell,…
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Is there any game engine using a functional programming language?
Is there any game engine using a functional programming language similar to Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure or JavaScript?
I've tried Unity3D but their "JavaScript" is not actually JavaScript, is strongly typed and is not functional.
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