Live Coding Kotlin/Native Snake
summary
Live codes a playable Snake implemented with Kotlin/Native, building and running a standalone ~700 KB single-threaded binary, using pregenerated C bindings to ncurses for terminal UI, unit tests for movement and turning, and a functional immutable snake model. Shows memory management patterns: manual C allocation, arenas and memScoped with defer for cleanup, apple spawning, growth logic, collision and game-over detection, and pushes code to GitHub where it can be inspected.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Kotlin Native introduction
- 5:13Project setup and tools
- 8:31Developing game logic
- 12:55Ncurses terminal UI
- 18:13Game loop and input
- 22:21Memory management
- 25:09Game mechanics and rules
- 30:58Adding apples and growth
- 37:53Conclusion and takeaways
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