gSuneido (the Go language implementation of Suneido) finally passes all the standard library (stdlib) tests. I'm sure there are still bugs to find and issues to deal with, but it's a significant milestone.
Even better, it runs the tests faster than cSuneido (the original C++ implementation). jSuneido is slightly faster once it warms up, but that's not surprising since it compiles to Java byte code which is then JIT compiled by the JRE, whereas gSuneido always interprets byte code.
Unfortunately, this milestone isn't very useful. gSuneido can't access Windows API's yet so it can't run the front end user interface. And I haven't implemented the database, so it can't be used as the back end server either. In the long run, we're working on a browser based user interface but that's a ways off so I'll probably work on a Windows interface next because that will let us replace the aging cSuneido for the front end client. Also, I intend to overhaul the database rather than just port it, so that'll be a bigger job.
I'm still happy with the Go language. Occasionally I miss generics, but most of the time it's not a big deal. It's definitely my favorite language these days. When I started in 2014, Go was not as popular or as polished as it is now. For example, the garbage collector was fairly primitive and not really ready for what I needed. Luckily I picked a good horse in the language race and Go is certainly production ready now.
The first commit to the Github repo was in April of 2014. I've made 603 commits since then, most of them in the last year or so. It's currently about 22,000 lines of code. In comparison, cSuneido is 45,000 and jSuneido is 58,000. (via cloc) In modern terms those are tiny amounts of code. But it's plenty for me to develop and maintain.
Even better, it runs the tests faster than cSuneido (the original C++ implementation). jSuneido is slightly faster once it warms up, but that's not surprising since it compiles to Java byte code which is then JIT compiled by the JRE, whereas gSuneido always interprets byte code.
Unfortunately, this milestone isn't very useful. gSuneido can't access Windows API's yet so it can't run the front end user interface. And I haven't implemented the database, so it can't be used as the back end server either. In the long run, we're working on a browser based user interface but that's a ways off so I'll probably work on a Windows interface next because that will let us replace the aging cSuneido for the front end client. Also, I intend to overhaul the database rather than just port it, so that'll be a bigger job.
I'm still happy with the Go language. Occasionally I miss generics, but most of the time it's not a big deal. It's definitely my favorite language these days. When I started in 2014, Go was not as popular or as polished as it is now. For example, the garbage collector was fairly primitive and not really ready for what I needed. Luckily I picked a good horse in the language race and Go is certainly production ready now.
The first commit to the Github repo was in April of 2014. I've made 603 commits since then, most of them in the last year or so. It's currently about 22,000 lines of code. In comparison, cSuneido is 45,000 and jSuneido is 58,000. (via cloc) In modern terms those are tiny amounts of code. But it's plenty for me to develop and maintain.
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