pokesim

I like to build Pokemon Battle Simulations to help me learn a programming language. Each language has its own directory.

Rules

I don't use any libraries outside of the standard library. All languages must be able to work with the same data files. All executables must accept the same command-line arguments (detailed below). The games played should be roughly indistinguishable - within reason (e.g. a web browser should use UI elements rather than attempting to recreate ANSI colors and ASCII art) - no matter what language is used. There are some things that may need to be explained for each language, which are detailed below.

Command Line Arguments

No positional arguments.

-V/--version

Outputs the program version. Each language can have its own version based on its own revision history. There are two formats that are acceptable, depending on whether the language is compiled.

• Compiled language format: {{program name}} - Pokémon Battle Simulator - Version {{version}} (Platform: {{language}} {{OS}} {{architecture}})
• Interpreted language format: {{program name}} - Pokémon Battle Simulator - Version {{version}} (Platform: {{language}} {{OS}})

... where program name is the name of the program/module/package/other code unit that is distributable as the simulator (e.g. package name for Python, module path for Go etc.), version is the version of the simulator, language is the language in which the simulator was written (including version of the language compiler/standard whenever possible), OS is the operating system on/for which the program was built/runs, and architecture is the CPU architecture of the compiled simulator binary.

Language-Specific Caveats/Explanations

Python

The setup.py includes three dependencies:

• readline, which is a standard library but doesn't exist on Windows platforms unless you install it as a pip dependency (possibly no longer true).
• typing, which is a standard library but older versions of Python don't include it.
• setuptools used for requiring the above dependencies.

Javascript (NodeJS)

The package.json includes two development dependencies

• typescript because really I just wanted to write this in TypeScript. The only reason it's not in a typescript/ directory is because I possibly want to write a Deno version one day.
• @types/node adds the types for the NodeJS standard libraries.