Replaces NTSL in favour of João, a new programming language

[Altoids1]

IMPORTANT:

1. This modifies the extools binary, and has extools as a dependency (for now).
2. This PR could function on its lonesome, but it makes the most sense to merge the associated sister PR located over here: Encorporates João, a new programming language, into extools extools#15.

Summary

Hi guys, it's NTSL man again, finally here to pull the trigger and put it out of its misery.

NTSL has always been a slow and questionably-designed language, and when working on it I've always wanted to write a language of my own design, that could run faster and be more accessible to new programmers.

The Language

João is a programming language created by me over the last several months, with an actively-developed interpreter written in C++17. Jamie & others have greenlit me working on hooking it up to SS13 as a replacement for NTSL.

The new programming language is my reply to the design motifs of DM, with a design philosophy more akin to Lua. It has the goal of being minimalistic and relatively easy to pick-up and learn, as Lua is, while still having an object orientation that's analogous to DM's setup.

The Traffic Computer

This PR updates a lot of how the Traffic Computer looks and feels. It is now easier to navigate and far cleaner-looking. In addition, primitive syntax highlighting has been added to the programming window to improve the coding experience.

Wiki Documentation

The documentation is still a work in progress, as of writing. A partial doc has been written up as a Github Page thing, located here.

To-do Checklist

• Get João compiling and working as an extools module
• Connect João to the telecomms system
• Update the Telecomms scripting UI to include syntax highlighting for João, as well as other graphics improvements
• Implement a garbage collector for João
• Do a run of bugfixes for João to make it production-ready (currently doesn't pass all checks on the main repo ): )
• Do whatever IPC nonsense is necessary for this to be sufficiently secure and safe for the Linux build
• Finish the documentation for João (you can follow my progress here)
• Complete an addendum documentation for using João as a telecommunications language

Changelog

🆑 Altoids
rscadd: The Traffic Computer (read: the NTSL computer) has gotten a glorious UI cleanup, with delightful TGUI polish!
rscadd: The Traffic Computer now attempts to do syntax highlighting on code written into it.
rscadd: Added Joao as the new telecomms scripting language. Check the PR, Discord, and elsewhere for documentation!
rscdel: Removed NTSL
bugfix: Fixed NTSL slowing the server down
tweak: Increased the maximum size and complexity of telecomms scripts to account for the faster programming language
spellcheck: The Traffic Computer finally has a description that (attempts) to explain what the hell it is.
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[Cartlord]

How are we supposed to pronounce the name of this language?

[Moja10]

JO-AIE-UH

[optimumtact]

so your genius plan here is to give people access to a full programming language virtual machine, written in C++ RUNNING ON YOUR SERVER?

[SweptWasTaken]

so your genius plan here is to give people access to a full programming language virtual machine, written in C++ RUNNING ON YOUR SERVER?

Idk why anyone bothers with these programming PRs because the only people who use them are exploiters and coders (coders don't play the game anyway).

[optimumtact]

honestly the more I thought about this the more I realised this is just what byond already is so jokes on me I guess.

[Moja10]

WHERE JO-A-AEY

[Altoids1]

WHERE JO-A-AEY

soon ;-;

[Altoids1]

Can't really be worked on until #13479 is merged or otherwise resolved.

The language itself however is in active development; you can see my progress over the last year at this repository.

[Boxlta]

Will this have inbuilt support for Regex? Would be really nice for comms stuff

[Altoids1]

Will this have inbuilt support for Regex? Would be really nice for comms stuff

Probably not at launch, but I do want to set up a basic regex engine eventually.

[TheGamerdk]

Cleaning up the old PRs. I'll notify you when auxmos is merged. Feel free to reopen now or anytime later, very cool project.