CX on Skycoin Blog

Introducing CX v0.7

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The Skycoin team keeps on powering through #MonthOfAnnouncements, and delivering key product updates through amazing development progress!

CX version 0.7

CX is the blockchain programming language for smart contracts on the Skycoin blockchain, and is an incredibly powerful part of the Skycoin ecosystem.

CX is a general purpose, interpreted, and compiled programming language, with a very strict type system and a syntax similar to Golang’s. CX provides a new programming paradigm based on the concept of affordances.

Development Update: Introducing CX v0.6 & 0.6.1

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

About CX

CX is the programming language for smart contracts on the Skycoin blockchain. CX is a general purpose, interpreted and compiled programming language, with a very strict type system and a syntax similar to Golang. CX provides a new programming paradigm based on the concept of affordances.

CX Version 0.6

2019–01–25

Version 0.6 of CX includes a number of features that were introduced in 0.5, including serialization, callbacks, improved error reporting and many more additions that will be laid out in the 0.6 release of the CX book.

Introducing CXFX: The CX Graphics Library

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

CXFX’s objective is to facilitate the development of games and applications using CX, allowing developers to focus on building their apps instead of having to write everything from scratch! This is a way to share and factorize knowledge.

At first, CXFX will be a library-only environment, allowing you to access CXFX functionalities from a CX program. The eventual goal is to have something like a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) game editor, like Unity.

State of the Crypto Market and Development Updates

Sat, 14 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Q&A

There is no mention of a re-working of the whitepapers. Should this not be a priority so that your marketing that has started has reference material. This is a technical coin and so the documentation needs to be up to date.

CX Tutorial: Using Affordances to Build a Small Text-based Adventure

Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

This tutorial presents a text-based “game” (the user does not interact with the program, and can not influence the character’s decisions) that uses a challenge-response architecture to determine what are the possible actions the game’s character can do. The full source-code can be found in CX’s repository, in the file examples/text-based-adventure.cx.

The game describes the adventure of a traveler that is escaping from a monster (Halloween is coming next month, after all). If the traveler survives certain number of hours (well, these are just iterations in a for loop), the monster will stop chasing the traveler. An example of a session is below:

CX Overview

Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

CX Introduction

CX is both a specification and a programming language designed to embrace a new programming paradigm based on the concept of affordances. Affordances allow a program to know what actions can and cannnot be done by it. For example, we can ask the program what arguments can be sent to a function, and the program will return a list of possible actions. After having decided what action from the list is appropriate, we can choose one of the options and the program will apply the chosen action. As a consequence of CX’s affordance system, a genetic programming algorithm is built and provided as a native function, which can be used to optimize the program’s structure during runtime.