Scripting in general terms

anonymouschico

Dear community, I'd like to learn how to make my own game scripting language. It would not be as complex as GDScript, and neither compete with it, but it's just for learning (any minimalist scripting language, even similar to Lua or so, would suffice). So, what I'm asking here is: is there any book I should read to learn how to create my barebone scripting language? Sideways, how was the GDScript firstly created?

Thanks to who will answer.

Megalomaniak

https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/ and the rest of the series(so far at least) can be located through the blog archive page: https://ruslanspivak.com/archives.html

Looks like a good start, but honestly I lack the experience to point you to anything better than just a quickly googled link or two.

I can however tell you that you will likely want to prototype it outside of godot first then start asking how to integrate it into godot.

NeoD

I 'm currently learning Flex software, regular expressions and EBNF notations, but I'm very new to this so I can't give better advices.

anonymouschico

Well, this is not meant to go inside godot. Just as an experiment to learn a script engine development.

basse

instead of learning how to create scripting language, maybe just learn how to implement already existing one on your game? and if you like lua, then https://www.lua.org/start.html

anonymouschico

in truth, I thought about this. but I'm really unsure