Tech Goals 2023

Inspired by Ben Awad, here are my technology and language goals for 2023.

Continue Using/Learning

• Lua
  • LDoc/LuaDoc
  • LuaRocks
  • Language Review (MetaTables, all keywords, etc)
• Godot
  • First Game 2023?
  • 4.x Multiplayer

Stop Using

• Golang
• Python ‘SSG’ where JavaScript would suffice

Start Using/Learning

• JavaScript (modern language features, implementations)
• Rust
• Bevy
• ECS Architecture (bevy?)
• Fleet
• VIM Extension for VSCode
• VSCode Snippets
• Lisp (or similar)

Results

• Completed my game in Godot for Ludum Dare 52
• Read and completed the ‘Rust Book’
• Created ‘Zip Drone Dash’ in Godot for Ludum Dare 53
• Created ‘YOU are the fish in Godot for GMTK 2023
• Created 4 Lua mods, which I count as completing my “Lua Crash Course”
• Created starter project in Bevy
• Created starter project in Hylang (Python lisp)
• Wrote the first couple hundred lines of a Regolith clone in Rust, code-named Regolite
• Not a single line of Golang :)

Notably Missing

• Fleet, VSCode Snippets, VIM+VSCode, JS, LDoc, LuaDoc, LuaRocks, Godot Multiplayer