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aatxe opened this issue Feb 26, 2025 · 3 comments
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API: Random #91

aatxe opened this issue Feb 26, 2025 · 3 comments
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aatxe commented Feb 26, 2025

Lute should consider including a random API that is more featureful than just math.random. Might be reasonable to just wrap math.random or might be reasonable to introduce a Lute-specific random primitive. Not entirely sure whether this belongs in batteries or std.
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@aatxe aatxe changed the title A more full-fledged random API. API: Random Feb 26, 2025
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aatxe commented Mar 19, 2025 •
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I think I'm inclined to say std is a better home for this for now in that I expect it will likely want a bit more random stuff exposes from the runtime as well to support it.

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I think I'm inclined to say std is a better home for this for now in that I expect it will likely want a bit more random stuff exposes from the runtime as well to support it.

I think that batteries would be a better place for this. There's so many incredibly useful (yet opinionated/impl specific) aspects about randomization that I think it makes more sense as a "psuedo-package" (so, a battery).

Random unit vector, weighted unit vector, random vector in a box, vector with random elements on specific axes, random vector within a circle, etc. etc.

However I think we should expose a better source of randomization than what Luau provides by default, as a runtime. Maybe this could be includ 7D95 ed in the system library?

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aatxe commented Apr 21, 2025

Exposing better stuff in the runtime is a lot of what this intended, not necessarily super general purpose high level random stuff. The remaining bits would just be "an API that lets you select from different CRNGs probably"

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