Ground Squirrel

Applications you use in your daily activities, and games you play to relieve some stress all rely on solid programming. There are different types of programming, depending on the expected result. Dedicated to Squirrel scripting, Ground Squirrel comes as a powerful development platform, with a set of intuitive tools.

The Squirrel programming languages is commonly used for specific events, and was used in popular programs, or video games, such as Portal 2. Before you can benefit from the set of features, you need to check whether or not Java Runtime Environment is installed on your computer, since it’s a mandatory requirement for functionality.

On the visual side of things, the workspace is simple enough to make accommodation easy for individuals of all levels of experience, given proper knowledge is already studied. Syntax highlighter makes it easy to track code, but there’s no line numbering on the side, or a built-in search function to find specific text strings, or operations.

A project can be tested out at any moment during development through the run function. All related details are shown in an output window, but possible errors are not highlighted inside the edit pad. A program can be launched with custom arguments, for enhanced testing purposes.

Multiple projects can be kept active, each in its own tab. This is especially handy for manipulating unions, with a dedicated browser on the side to select them. Unions can also be saved to file under a dedicated format, while projects themselves are all wrapped under the NUT format, specific to the Squirrel programming language.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Ground Squirrel is a straightforward scripting environment for the Squirrel programming language. Sure enough, it’s easy to figure out, and use, but the lack of different comfort options, such as a search tool, or line numbering make it feel rough around the edges overall.