Minimal Go Port of DOOM Engine: GORE
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Summary
The article introduces GORE, a minimal, platform-agnostic Go port of the legendary DOOM engine, derived from the doomgeneric codebase. It emphasizes the use of pure Go without CGo or platform dependencies, highlighting the manual cleanup of the original C code to make it more idiomatic to Go. The project is open for contributions on GitHub.
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· 3 pulledThis is a minimal, platform-agnostic Go port of the legendary DOOM engine, transpiled from the doomgeneric codebase.
No CGo. No platform dependencies. Just pure, unadulterated demon-slaying action powered by the glory of Go's cross-compilation.
The original C code was converted to Go using (modernc.org/ccgo/v4), by cznic (https://gitlab.com/cznic/doomgeneric.git).
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