GameClosure & CoffeeScript

Yesterday a colleague pointed me a very interesting game engine called GameClosure that can compile Javascript and HTML down to native code for mobile devices.



Never wanting to touch Javascript after having discovered the wonders of CoffeeScript I took a quick look at how to get a hello-world example working with CoffeeScript & GameClojure... here's the code:

	`import ui.TextView as TextView`
	class helloWorld extends GC.Application
	initUI:->
	textView = new TextView({
	superview: @view
	layout: "box"
	text: "Hello, Coffee!"
	color: "white"})
	super
	`exports = helloWorld`

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A couple of points of note here are:

• exports is backtick-escaped so as to render directly to javascript as the engine requires exports to have global scope.
• CoffeeScript's implementation of inheritance replaces GameClosures 'Class(<super class>, func...' inheritance helper function (and is much nicer IMO) as seen in their javascript implementation of hello-world. 

Hopefully it's this easy with, non-trivial, GameClosure applications.