@Sam : Personnaly, I never tried to embed Python, but I know some projects who do it : XBMC, Blender I don't know a lot different programming language, but as far as I know Lua is easy but not widely known. Nevertheless, I agree, it's syntax is pretty nice (even if it could be improved).
I don't know Guile or Lisp (I only tried Scheme and OCaml), but I'm not sure that they would allow the same things as easily as in Lua. @Oon-Ee : I don't think that mixing two DE/WM is a good idea. I give a look to i3 doc, the main config file doesn't seems to be written in Python, it should be a quite 'expert' functionnality. Nevertheless, I LOVE AwesomeWM, I don't want to change (for the moment). @cedlemo : I know that you can implement a kind of OO programming in Lua ( http://www.lua.org/pil/16.html), but it's not straight-forward. Why does a 'class' keyword not exist ? I'm quite new to Ruby, and I don't know it well. If you say that it's not very lightweight, it's probably not the best choice for Awesome. @everyone: Thanks, for your first answers. Hope we will have more opinions ! Alexis Le sam. 1 août 2015 à 10:47, cedlemo <cedl...@gmx.com> a écrit : > > Not designed for OO programming > > Yes it is ! I thought that too at first when I didn't really know lua. The > OO in Lua is not based on Class but on Prototype with the table. You should > get > a copy of "Programming in Lua" from Roberto Ierusalimschy it is really > worth it. > > > > Does anyone would be interested in using Python (or another one : Ruby, > ???) instead ? > > For Ruby that I really like (I contribute to ruby-gnome and ruby-opengl > bindings) I think that > lua is by far a best choice if you want to embed an interpreter in your > application and want it to be ligthweigth. > > Some of the ruby dev work on mruby a lightweight alternative to ruby > http://www.mruby.org/ > > > Regards > > https://github.com/cedlemo > > > On 31/07/2015 22:56, Alexis BRENON wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Perhaps the question was already asked million times, and probably it's a > very good subject for trolls, but I'm asking myself a question. > > Why Lua has been chosen to be the language for AwesomeWM configuration ? > > I'm currently building a kind of framework for Awesome confg ( > https://github.com/AlexisBRENON/awesome-configuration) and to do so, I > learned many aspects of Lua. I even use it for Hackaton, to see if I know > it well. But the more I learn, the more I see it's defaults... > Just to cite a few that piss me off : > > - No distinction between list/table and hash/dict > - Too few standard functions for table manipulation (the length > operator on a table used as a dictionnary, always returns 0... No table > concatenation) > - No multithreading/multi-CPU support (only coroutines) > - Not designed for OO programming > > As far as I know, Python could have been a good choice. > > TL;DR : > Why AwesomeWM uses Lua as configuration language ? > Does anyone would be interested in using Python (or another one : Ruby, > ???) instead ? > Does an attempt to build an Awesome API in another language has been > already started ? > > I would be happy to hear/read the position of the first creator of Awesome. > > Kind regards, > Alexis > > >
