What does HackerNews think of awk-raycaster?

Fascination of Awk | Mar 2023

Author missed an opportunity to reference this 3D doom-like in awk: https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014) | May 2018

If anything, awk should get some praise for it's flexibility to go from one liners to Doom-style 3d games[1]!

[1] https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster

Awk driven IoT | Jul 2017

I'm reminded of two other surprising uses of Awk -- "Awk for AI"[0] and "awk-raycaster"[1]

I really like Awk as a language because it integrates so well with shell pipelines and it is incredibly small, while remaining high-level enough to be practical, which I think this project demonstrates quite well.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140926113347/http://www.wra1th...

[1]: https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster

Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor | Apr 2016

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I say it says you're an engineer. :D

Only engineers see stuff like this and go "aw, cool!"

Incidentally the "video" is a small pile of JSON - filter for XHR in the devtools to find it, the URL uses an expiration system so a direct link would break. (Aaaand I just learned they implemented VT100 in JavaScript... the JSON is full of actual, real, escape sequences...)

(If you haven't seen it, you might also like: https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10896901)