https://github.com/goossens/ObjectTalk:
Welcome to ObjectTalk, a object-oriented Swiss Army Knife providing a Scripting Language, 2D/3D Graphics Engine, Node Based Programming, Audio Engine, an Entity Component System and an Integrated Development Environment to learn and have some fun.
Late 2020, I retired after a 40+ year career in the software and system development business. Starting as a programmer/analyst and later moving up the ladder to management, international standardization and geopolitics, I was exposed to lots of technologies including operating systems design, computer language development, military command and control systems, web application design, data science and what we now call artificial intelligence. You can read my full bio on my website.
After retirement, I dusted off some old projects to improve mental health (applying the «use it or loss it» principle like we do for physical health) and that’s how this repository came about. I started by revisiting a scripting language I wrote decades ago, modernizing it and learning things along the way. Once the language was stable, it needed a few use cases and I dusted off some 2D/3D graphic projects that I had laying around. This then led to including a graphics engine, an Entity Component System (ECS), Node Based programming and a custom Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The latest addition is an audio engine that will help with my musical interests as it provides Digital Signal Processing (DSP) based circuits that can be quickly connected together to create «musical» instruments or create sounds.
So today, this project contains a lot of code, compiles into a single executable with no runtime dependencies and is functional on MacOS, Linux and Windows. It basically is a playground to learn and have fun. Think of it as a educational jack of all trades, master of none.
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