Eddy was a small project that helped me learn more about how games work. I wanted to explore this realm, and since I love text editors ( I use vim btw ), I thought it would be great to create one.

But why creating a text editor to learn how games work ? Well they are very similar, basically you have a setup function that prepares everything that the program/interface might need as resources, then you'll have the main loop in which you catch user input and update the current state (update & rerendering).

So that is why a text editor is not much diffrent then a game. You draw the editor interface, you enter your main loop, you listen for user input and you redraw to the screen the updated state.

• Eddy v0.2.x screenshot, ( a very minimal editor, not designed for mainstream use, only experimental )

Linux

Windows

Prompt mode

• First, download from Github the latest release.
  • for Linux and OSX(MAC), download the eddy binary.
  • for Windows, download the eddy.exe binary.
• Verify the download integrity using the checksums (checklist.chk).
• Add it to your PATH env variable, and run it.

NOTE: For those of you that are using windows, it would be better to use MS-Powershell/Git-Bash instead of DOS-CMD, since Powershell has a better support for POSIX commands (the makefile will run better on it).

• Delete the binary file.
• Remove the binary from your PATH env variable.

For this, you can either keep the project free from CGO and use the Makefile. Or, you can introduce CGO and use zig cc or zig c++ to compile and include/pass C/C++ libraries to the clang compiler, to do so you'll have to change the Makefile to update the CC env before calling go build.

If you do not want to use the Makefile, you can use goreleaser that prefers yaml files which are easier to read and maintain. Be aware though that goreleaser set CGO_ENABLED=0 by default. This won't be an issue if the projects still is CGO-free but consider changing that config if that is no longer the case.