Hi!
I read your post on r/fsharp and I wanted to log my feedback here for greater visibility.
You asserted that the method you experimented with yielded negative results. As a functional game developer (author of Nu Game Engine), I think the problem might be that you used the most straight-forward approach. I think the more appropriate approach would be to implement an Elmish-style MVU programming model where the Unity engine is treated as the DOM and is connected to the model via something like FSharp.Data.Adaptive.
You'd have to implement a Unity-specific DOM-differ and a declarative Entity interface a la Elm's view types, but I think such things could be prototyped in short order. Additionally, you could have a principled back-door for imperative operations on Unity via something like Nu's Commands.
I would love to advise on this approach if you're interested in pursuing it. I think it would be a great opportunity to apply the lessons you've learned and leverage my hard-earned experience in building the functional F# game engine, Nu. Our discord is here in case you'd like to get in touch - https://discord.gg/6HgMeRM
Cheers and thanks for the hard work you've done so far!
Hi!
I read your post on r/fsharp and I wanted to log my feedback here for greater visibility.
You asserted that the method you experimented with yielded negative results. As a functional game developer (author of Nu Game Engine), I think the problem might be that you used the most straight-forward approach. I think the more appropriate approach would be to implement an Elmish-style MVU programming model where the Unity engine is treated as the DOM and is connected to the model via something like FSharp.Data.Adaptive.
You'd have to implement a Unity-specific DOM-differ and a declarative Entity interface a la Elm's view types, but I think such things could be prototyped in short order. Additionally, you could have a principled back-door for imperative operations on Unity via something like Nu's Commands.
I would love to advise on this approach if you're interested in pursuing it. I think it would be a great opportunity to apply the lessons you've learned and leverage my hard-earned experience in building the functional F# game engine, Nu. Our discord is here in case you'd like to get in touch - https://discord.gg/6HgMeRM
Cheers and thanks for the hard work you've done so far!