A few months ago someone posted about an in-browser sand/water/fish simulation and there was a discussion thread about similar ant simulations! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36002901
The big thing I was exploring, however, was a more prototypical-inheritance-oriented development. Rather than forEach() style callbacks, instance methods were used (`Update(time)`) and could be inherited from prototypes (which was the default as the Clone method was the default way to create new "bees"/"turtles"). The prototype-inheritance worked in sort of "copy on write" way that properties would be entirely shared across the prototype chain until changed for a specific instance.
I used the Boo language in the C#-based REPL environment. That was a Python-inspired .NET language (which has somewhat disappeared since). At the time, I built the prototype-style inheritance as a combination of hacks of C# object graphs of hash tables (`Dictionary<K, V>` with an added "ownership" concept) and Boo macros (and not quite finished at the pencil's down time: `IQuackFoo` [Boo] and `IDynamicObject` [DLR] support).
(I think I'd have to dig the old darcs repo out of mothballed backups at this point, but I did find my final presentation on it in my Documents folder, otherwise I wouldn't have remembered half of this.)
Anyway, the interesting thing about Agentscript being in JS, itself a prototype-based language, is that you should be able to easily recreate much of what I did in that old project, except maybe the "copy on write" semantics might need a bit of fudging. I still think that prototype-based inheritance (and even things like runtime prototype switching) is still a very useful avenue of exploration for Agent based modeling like this (and underappreciated in general, especially now that JS' own prototype-oriented nature is increasingly obscured behind the class syntax sugar). It can be a little more interesting that imperative forEach-based modeling.
