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IRC log for #minetest-dev, 2020-10-05

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14:25 rubenwardy The player sprite in devtest is visible when looking down, and looks super weird
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14:31 Andrey01 hello
14:37 Andrey01 I saw a discussion of v-rob and some other core devs about going to move the GUIs fully on Lua-side and I have a few questions about that:
14:38 Andrey01 would that not decrease the performance? although, c++ is significantly faster than Lua
14:39 Andrey01 also, would it be possible to create custom gui elements via modding API?
14:40 rubenwardy the entire reason to move it to Lua is to allow custom elements via the modding API
14:40 Andrey01 ah
14:41 Andrey01 but how would that affect the performance of GUIs?
14:41 rubenwardy probably not noticeably
14:41 rubenwardy Lua isn't that slow, with LuaJIT especially
14:42 rubenwardy elements like hypertext could be implemented in C++
14:42 rubenwardy it's worth some experimentation
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14:47 Andrey01 I thought the main reason of moving is make the forms dynamic, that is, possibility to add/remove gui elements, but herewith without repeated showing of a whole form
14:47 Andrey01 that is, without calling show_formspec() again
14:48 rubenwardy that's not the main reason
14:48 rubenwardy the main reason is that formspecs are a bad language
14:50 Andrey01 but this is a bad language, because its form strings are not dynamic?
14:51 rubenwardy no, it's a bad language because it's an inconsistent domain-specific DSL
14:51 rubenwardy you could make formspecs dynamic
14:53 Andrey01 don`t know what DSL is meant
14:53 rubenwardy domain-specific language
14:53 rubenwardy it's a language invented for a very specific use
14:54 rubenwardy The implemention of formspecs is also problematic, because it's tied to Irrlicht GUIs which have poor structure
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