On 22/02/2012 23:41, Timo Sirainen wrote:
I've heard LUA being a commonly used embedded language, but I'd prefer to instead support several very widely used languages, such as Perl/Python.
I'm a perl/ruby fan myself, but I would still recommend a good look at lua (or python) simply because they seem to be performant, easy to use, and on the surface seem to have had some thought about making them "embeddable".
My new favourite editor "Sublime Text 2" has python as it's scripting language. Lua has been used for some big name games amongst other things.
Perl has some memory management issues if you leave it long running, also writing XS code looks ok on the surface, but is an exercise in hair pulling in practice.... Ruby is a beautiful language, but unsure of how easy to embed and speed + memory management is an unknown (for high performance applications)
I think it has potential though. I think a lot of the current plugins on the website could easily be rewritten, likely without performance concerns, using a scripting based plugin system. I could see that some other big picture pieces could potentially benefit also
Thanks for considering it Ed W
