The past two months have been almost solely focused on developing NimbyScript, the future scripting language for NIMBY Rails. It has been quite hard to get started, with some very lofty goals to achieve, and a lot of reading and experimentation was needed. Read on for the programming nerd adventures in NimbyScript.
WARNING: this is an extremely technical post of little to no interest to most players. NimbyScript is nowehere near finished. Once NimbyScript is ready for being introduced in the game it will get a proper guide. This post is NOT the guide for NimbyScript.
https://carloscarrasco.com/nimby-rails-may-2025/
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