Reactive programming has become commonplace in many kinds of software, while others, including games, have been slow to adopt it. There is an idea stretching back to the 70s that enables reactive programming in an extremely general way: rules engines. This talk will demonstrate pararules, a breakthrough rules engine for Nim. It will demonstrate how games and other software can define their entire logic as a series of independent rules, and how it decouples your data much like (but more powerful than) an entity component system. It will show why this kind of library is only practical to implement in a language with a Lisp-like macro system such as Nim's.
Speakers: Zach Oakes