Bitbearner

A converter tool for the game, Bitburner - converts scripts from NS1 to NS2 or vice versa.

No more tiresome manual addition/deletion of ns. and await!

• Bitbearner is intended, mostly, for new players of Bitburner, who used ns1 when starting out and now wants to switch to ns2.
• It can also be used when helping new players who are using ns1.

How to use

First, head over to https://bitbearner.netlify.app/

Then, paste your script in the textarea:

//Your code goes here

Note: Avoid using .ns extension for your scripts, since it's already deprecated.

If you've manually updated some parts in your script from ns1 to ns2, it would be better to convert it first from ns2 to ns1 before proceeding to convert it completely to ns2.

Bitbearner works essentially, by simply adding/deleting ns. in every Netscript functions. It also adds/deletes await if necessary. Lastly, it will automatically wrap the whole script inside the main(ns) function.

Feel free to use and reuse anything in this tool.

Limitations & stuff to improve

• The NS2 => NS1 converter is a basic converter made for simple scripts only.

These will have to be changed manually:

• deletion of import and export when converting NS2 to NS1
• wrapping of additional async functions

Note that only the first and main export async function main(ns) will be handled in the conversion.

TODO:

• Add a syntax highlighter

If you have found bugs/ have suggestions or ideas, please feel free to let me know about it or by opening a Github issue.

Resources

If you're interested to learn more about Netscript, check out the ff:

• Ralic's NS1-to-NS2 Guide
• Bitburner's documentation
• List of Netscript functions

Special thanks

Huge thanks to @lethern for providing all the RegEx needed to make the tool perform much better! And special thanks to everyone in the Discord channel for providing advice and support, I keep learning new things from y'all!