Script Language

[JOHNNY GUEGGU]

What language are the scripts in?

Are they just Shellscripts from the ingame shell?

Or are we able to use JS like in HackMud?

[b0nehead]

Originally posted by JOHNNY GUEGGU:

Me, the OP: "If only there was a cool hacking game that uses JS (or some other language used in the real world) and not some fork of an obscure miniscript noone uses."

Steam: "Hold my beer!"

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"Infiltration is a series of short minigames...you take "damage" from failing them."

I don't think you get what greyhack is. If you come with any background you can pick it up easily.

Your linked game looks cool, i like uplink and the hollywood style hacking games.

[Xephael]

Originally posted by JOHNNY GUEGGU:

Me, the OP: "If only there was a cool hacking game that uses JS (or some other language used in the real world) and not some fork of an obscure miniscript noone uses."

Steam: "Hold my beer!"


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/

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That's not an mmo and wouldn't require any form of sandboxing

[JOHNNY GUEGGU]

Originally posted by Xephael:

That's not an mmo and wouldn't require any form of sandboxing

No it's not. But it uses the most popular language in the world (for over 10 years) for coding the scripts (Sauce: https://octoverse.github.com/#top-languages-over-the-years). This makes it instantly more approachable for, like 95% of potential players out there

Also, the game is free. You can play it here already: https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner/

I'm sure it hasn't got the depth and flexibility of this game, but for me it's simple: I want a hacker-game with real-world applications when it comes to coding.

I don't want to learn a "fake language" like most games in the "hacking game genre" offer.
I know miniscript is different. It's open-source and not "fake", but it's niche-to-the-point-noone-knows-it-and-therefor-amlost-"fake".

I'll give bitburner game a shot, the idea of using JS is perfect for me and everything I learn, I can apply in the real world, as JS is everywhere.

Originally posted by Wanted514:

I don't think you get what greyhack is. If you come with any background you can pick it up easily.

That's the point: I don't have and coding-background whatsoever. I only do it as a hobby. And I suck at it. 😅

For a dummy like me, this bitburner game is way more approachable, because it uses JS, that's all I'm saying.

[Xephael]

Originally posted by JOHNNY GUEGGU:

Originally posted by Xephael:

That's not an mmo and wouldn't require any form of sandboxing

No it's not. But it uses the most popular language in the world (for over 10 years) for coding the scripts (Sauce: https://octoverse.github.com/#top-languages-over-the-years). This makes it instantly more approachable for, like 95% of potential players out there

To clarify this a little, javascript is the most used language because it's fundamental to website design, and website design makes up a large portion of coding in general. Python, which is the second most popular language according to that, is used more for coding applications. Miniscript shares a lot in common with python, as it's based in large part on python, so in that sense you may be learning something more useful then javascript, unless you are going into website development.

Either way though, complaining that Grey Hack doesn't use javascript is a bit silly, Grey Hack won't be swapping to javascript, so if your goal is to learn javascript they Grey Hack probably isn't the game for you. (There is limited javascript allowed in making the websites in Grey Hack, along with html and css, not for the programs you code though)