Daslang (former daScript) - care and feeding

ai-friendly

2026-03-07T04:19:47.000Z

You say You are AI friendly. But how friendly are You?

we-can-has-dasilb

2026-02-21T05:20:35.000Z

Sometimes technical debt gets paid off.

quality-of-life

2026-01-23T04:21:45.000Z

Sometimes little things make big difference.

Templates? Templates?? Type macros!

2026-01-19T17:58:46.000Z

This is going to be a good one. It’s an iceberg.

LINQ?

2025-10-09T00:27:00.000Z

LINQ? But Boris, DASLANG already has high-order functions.

How to EDSL

2025-06-06T02:56:40.000Z

There are ways to ~~die~~ EDSL, and there are ways to ~~die~~ EDSL.

options gen2

2025-05-05T03:57:24.000Z

Its very easy to ignore reality. Ignoring effects of ignoring reality - now that’s tricky.

Zero point five

2024-10-11T00:36:36.000Z

Construction can’t be finished, only stopped. 0.5 is out.

Of pipes and blocks

2024-09-18T05:16:07.000Z

Das is not a write-only code. The idea is we read more than we write.
There is “write as you speak”, but there is also “read as you listen”.

Data initialization in DAS

2024-07-24T04:35:17.000Z

Updated on 2024-07-29 16:31:00

Sometimes shorthand notation arrives first.

Garbage collection in the wild

2024-04-17T04:07:26.000Z

What do a mafia boss and a garbage-collector have in common?
Both make sure you’ll never see unwanted things again!

Daslang it is

2023-12-29T04:51:24.000Z

The plug has been pulled. Daslang it is. Take a look at dasCHash too ( C#->DAS ).

0.4 and THE PLAN

2023-05-02T00:11:37.000Z

0.4 is out. Its a big deal. Its not a big deal.

Hectic

2023-04-17T17:44:39.000Z

Hectic is exactly the word which comes to mind, when I look at the commit history for the month.

A matter of multiplication

2023-03-21T06:28:56.000Z

Its a matter of multiplication, really. Productivity factors do not just add up (thats why they are called factors).

Wake up and test the damn thing

2023-02-26T02:44:19.000Z

It has to be stable. The time has come to test the damn thing.

Pattern matching

2023-02-07T19:45:17.000Z

In the world of computer programming, there is a concept known as pattern matching.
This technique allows us to take a complex value, such as an array or a variant, and compare it to a set of patterns.
If the value fits a certain pattern, the matching process continues and we can extract specific values from that value.
This is a powerful tool for making our code more readable and efficient,
and in this section we’ll be exploring the different ways that pattern matching can be used in daScript.

For loop noise

2023-01-28T00:24:05.000Z

It’s stupid. It’s ugly. Its also measurable performance gain.

Performance and CMRES aliasing

2023-01-21T22:31:03.000Z

From dascript.org “… is high-level, statically strong typed scripting language, designed to be fast …”

With an emphasis on fast. Performance first, last, and foremost.

It's not a script

2022-12-31T20:03:22.000Z

Whats in a name? The sheer fact that I’m writing this post implies a problem.
“It’s not a script” is something we had to say on numerous occasions.

Boris ELI5 script?
Script is a simple programming langue you write your game logic in. When it gets slow you rewrite it to C++.

daScript is none of the above.

Implementing instruments

2022-12-11T18:36:22.000Z

During the last few days I took a small detour from the land of the JIT, to the land of the profiler.

There is something about JIT

2022-11-20T17:46:37.000Z

In the early days of daScript development having robust JIT was never a priority.
In fact during the initial planning meetings JIT was postponed until the cows came home.

Better safe

2022-11-15T02:29:45.000Z

Herb Sutter is right. Its the same thing year after year after year. Lifetime, Initialization, Type safety, and Bounds safety are the things which your language should do for you.

Lock and load

2022-11-13T19:58:49.000Z

Consider the following example:

[export]
def main
    var a <- [{int 1;2;3;4}]
    for x in a
        a |> push(13)   // kaboom

It causes daScript runtime panic.