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@ -3215,8 +3215,7 @@ Erlang is not a very popular language for game development, therefore the
interface to different virtual machines which would run the game code.
This way a game developer can write the game in his favorite language while
the server part still is written in Erlang and can benefit from all the
advantages of the Erlang language.
In this section, a few potential languages are given.
advantages the Erlang language provides.
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JavaScript is a prime GDL candidate for the GGS.
The language is very flexible, a general knowledge of the language is present
in the computer science community, furthermore there are virtual machines
readily available for JavaScript.
The language is very flexible, and a large base of developers within the
web community is using this language on the client side within the browser
and therefore are used to it.
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JavaScript has gained a lot of popularity lately, it is used in large projects
such as
JavaScript, as a interpreted script language, has gained a lot of popularity
in other fields of computer science lately.
It is used as a server side language in large projects such as
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Since the GGS is intended to be connected to several different GDL VMs the
choice for the first language implemented for the GGS prototype seems not
only to depend on the technical features of the GDL chosen, in this case
JavaScript.
A different, albeit still important non technical feature of JavaScript
is the familiarity with the language of the members of the GGS development
team.
Apart from that there are virtual machines with bindings to Erlang readily
available for JavaScript which are provided by organisations like Mozilla
and companies like Google.
In the end this choice was more or less arbitrary since the GGS is intended
to be able to run several different GDL VMs, and one had to be the first.
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The popularity of JavaScript in the programming community, in combination
with the availability of several different JavaScript virtual machines
was an important influence in choosing JavaScript as the main control language
for our GGS prototype.
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