I have been meaning to write this post for quite a while now. Since the first announcement of the iOS7 beta I immediately saw the list of new API’s and SpriteKit caught my eye straight away. I only managed to get time to briefly look over the API and saw that is wasn’t the usual trashy API with a million method overloads, internal mutation sucker punch type thing. It seems to be very declarative and intuitive, which makes for a nice change.

There’s been a fair bit of activity lately from a project called ScriptCS, it allows you to put together a project using C# as a lightweight scripting language, forgoing the use of Visual Studio which can sometimes be too bloated and bulky. It also allows you to use C# in a Read Evaluate Print Loop - REPL. This is nothing new to F# and indeed lots of other languages have REPL’s too. One of the other benefits of ScriptCs is that it also integrates nicely with Nuget allowing you to use your favourite [...]