Monday, 27 November 2017

Screeps

It’s no secret that I dislike working with JavaScript. Maybe I’ve just grown accustomed to strong-typed languages with great tools for static analysis. Plenty of my bad experiences with JS were the result of bugs/typos I introduced and not a direct fault of the language, but many of them could’ve been caught ahead of time…

All of that being said, I’ve actually enjoyed playing Screeps. Basically, it’s a massive multiplayer online game where you program (using JavaScript, TypeScript, or other transpiled languages) how your objects in the game will behave. It’s a bit like an ever nerdier version of Minecraft :)

It hasn’t made me love programming in JS but it has at least kept me from being annoyed about it… I’m too busy solving (in-game) problems to dwell much on the language… which is probably a good thing…