Angelscript - Programming language

Angelscript is a programming language created in 2003 by Andreas Jönsson.

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AngelScript is a game-oriented interpreted compiled scripting language. AngelScript features static typing, object handles (similar to C++ pointers but garbage collected via reference counting), object-orientation, single inheritance, multiple inheritance with interfaces. Allows operators to be registered and overloaded. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 1,140 Angelscript repos on GitHub
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 275 users using Angelscript in 286 repos on GitHub
Explore Angelscript snippets on Rosetta Code
Angelscript appears in the TIOBE Index
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Angelscript
See also: (1 related languages) Eclipse

Example from hello-world:

void main() { print("Hello World\n"); }

Example from the Hello World Collection:

// Hello world in AngelScript

void main() { print("Hello world\n"); }

Example from Linguist:

/*
*	This is a sample script.
*/

#include "BotManagerInterface.acs"

BotManager::BotManager g_BotManager( @CreateDumbBot );

CConCommand@ m_pAddBot;

void PluginInit()
{
	g_BotManager.PluginInit();
	
	@m_pAddBot = @CConCommand( "addbot", "Adds a new bot with the given name", @AddBotCallback );
}

void AddBotCallback( const CCommand@ args )
{
	if( args.ArgC() < 2 )
	{
		g_Game.AlertMessage( at_console, "Usage: addbot <name>" );
		return;
	}
	
	BotManager::BaseBot@ pBot = g_BotManager.CreateBot( args[ 1 ] );
	
	if( pBot !is null )
	{
		g_Game.AlertMessage( at_console, "Created bot " + args[ 1 ] + "\n" );
	}
	else
	{
		g_Game.AlertMessage( at_console, "Could not create bot\n" );
	}
}

final class DumbBot : BotManager::BaseBot
{
	DumbBot( CBasePlayer@ pPlayer )
	{
		super( pPlayer );
	}
	
	void Think()
	{
		BotManager::BaseBot::Think();
		
		// If the bot is dead and can be respawned, send a button press
		if( Player.pev.deadflag >= DEAD_RESPAWNABLE )
		{
			Player.pev.button |= IN_ATTACK;
		}
		else
			Player.pev.button &= ~IN_ATTACK;
		
		KeyValueBuffer@ pInfoBuffer = g_EngineFuncs.GetInfoKeyBuffer( Player.edict() );
		
		pInfoBuffer.SetValue( "topcolor", Math.RandomLong( 0, 255 ) );
		pInfoBuffer.SetValue( "bottomcolor", Math.RandomLong( 0, 255 ) );
		
		if( Math.RandomLong( 0, 100 ) > 10 )
			Player.pev.button |= IN_ATTACK;
		else
			Player.pev.button &= ~IN_ATTACK;
			
		for( uint uiIndex = 0; uiIndex < 3; ++uiIndex )
		{
			m_vecVelocity[ uiIndex ] = Math.RandomLong( -50, 50 );
		}
	}
}

BotManager::BaseBot@ CreateDumbBot( CBasePlayer@ pPlayer )
{
	return @DumbBot( pPlayer );
}

Angelscript Keywords

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Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Conditionals	✓
Switch Statements	✓
Constants	✓
Classes	✓
While Loops	✓
Booleans	✓		true false
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Print() Debugging	✓		print
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X