Congrats on the release. This looks like the first C and/or C++ replacement I might actually give a significant whirl. I enjoy programming in C as a hobby-grade thing, but it gets challenging organizationally fairly quickly for the sort of full applications I usually build. And I'm also a big fan of the C# "mouthfeel," so to speak. I have tried Rust, and while I'm a fan of its design goals, etc., fully wrapping my mind around the ownership/lifetime system is just not something I have the mental capacity for right now. I don't use these systems langs enough professionally (read: at all) to justify the labor cost.
This also seems pretty damn polished for it being the first time anyone publicly has gotten a look at it. I mean, a full IDE on day one is nuts.
I know Beef seems sharply tuned for game dev (another hobby of mine), but do you see Beef as being usable for general purpose systems/application development? Is there anything about it that would discourage its use for a standard desktop GUI app? And because I'm curious and haven't seen this answered elsewhere, is the Beef IDE also written in Beef, for some tasty beefy dogfood?
edit: Nevermind on that last question, I found it answered in the guide (in the affirmative). Nice!
> Is there anything about it that would discourage its use for a standard desktop GUI app?
Complete lack of accessibility support, particularly for blind users via screen readers, in the included GUI toolkit. Please don't use this for any application that people will be required to use in their job or education.
Also, to be clear- the custom GUI library that the IDE uses is NOT a general-purpose GUI library; it is a support library for the IDE and other BeefLang tools. A true general-purpose GUI would be quite a lot more flexible and also much more complicated... which is not something that is intended for this particular GUI library.
I did eventually find that notice in the documentation, after I posted my comment (and sent you an email). I should have read more of the docs first.
Still, I wonder why you chose to write your own GUI just for the Beef IDE (and installer) rather than use an existing general-purpose GUI. Were you aware of the accessibility issue?
This also seems pretty damn polished for it being the first time anyone publicly has gotten a look at it. I mean, a full IDE on day one is nuts.
I know Beef seems sharply tuned for game dev (another hobby of mine), but do you see Beef as being usable for general purpose systems/application development? Is there anything about it that would discourage its use for a standard desktop GUI app? And because I'm curious and haven't seen this answered elsewhere, is the Beef IDE also written in Beef, for some tasty beefy dogfood?
edit: Nevermind on that last question, I found it answered in the guide (in the affirmative). Nice!