Newsletter 12: Langcraft (#209)

* Basic summary of Langcraft.

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Co-authored-by: Andrey Lesnikov <[email protected]>

Author: icefoxen

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 [vulkan-renderer-prototype-video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_HQbejHE4
 [moltenvk]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
 
+### [Langcraft]
+
+[Langcraft] is the Minecraft LLVM target you've never wanted.
+
+Langcraft started as a dare to the `#lang-dev` channel of the Rust
+Community Discord to be able to parse Rust code in Minecraft.
+Naturally, it grew into a full code generator that can translate
+most LLVM IR to
+[Minecraft data packs](https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Data_Pack),
+the game's deliberately-limited in-game scripting language. Langcraft
+is entirely language independent, so any language with an LLVM-based
+compiler can (with the right API bindings) run in Minecraft. Currently
+bindings to both C and Rust exist. While not as visually impressive as
+a redstone computer, Langcraft does stretch the bounds of the game quite
+a bit, using jukeboxes for memory, armor stands to represent pointers,
+and rearranging compiled code to make it run in the bounds of the data
+packs' fixed instruction limit.
+
+This is all, naturally, entirely useless. The project is also still
+heavily work-in-progress and does not pretend to be stable, but it is
+usable. A handwritten interpreter for a Rust-like language has already
+been demonstrated running, and even more complex projects like [CHIP-8
+emulators](https://github.com/Dhole/chip8-rs.git) function (albeit at
+extremely slow speed).
+
+You can watch a [video of Rust interpreter running Fizzbuzz][langcraft-video]:
+
+[![youtube preview](longcraft-video.jpeg)][langcraft-video]
+
+[Langcraft]: https://github.com/SuperTails/langcraft
+[langcraft-video]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cx0w5Wn9pPU
+
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