On 2009-11-17 19:51 -0200, TC wrote: > _any_ language he/she's used to, which I find a good basement philosophy if > you ask me.
Not quite. Such a generic scripting interface inherently has to stick to the lowest common denominator.. and hence it should really not be the main extension/scripting interface, I think, but a more simplified "command interface".. For more thoughts on this, see http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/2007/scripting_configuration_and_api_design/ http://iki.fi/tuomov/vis/ > I'm reluctant to learn yet another language just for the window manager. "Baawaawaa, it's not written in My Language Of Choice, so it must be rewritten." That describes something like 49% of FOSS projects The other 49% is "baawaawaa, it's not Freeā”: it doesn't use My License of Choice". The remaining 2% may have some originality. There really is not much to learn in Lua, and if you can't pick up a language "on the go" -- especially as simple one as lua, with a very short official reference manual -- you shouldn't be programming at all. It's not like you need a high level of proficiency for scripting. I've written plugins for programs written in perl, ruby, and python, and I have never taken the time to properly learn them, don't really like them (Lua is _much_ better, except for the library selection), and would not start a project using them myself, unless there was some very compelling reason (library availability or such). > which I find far less versatile and readable than my language of choice. Then you haven't even bothered reading the basic description of the language, and are criticising just because it's not Your Language of Choice. > Again, this may be just a matter of taste, but in any case, I do not feel > like messing with lua, and I think it should not be imposed. It's not imposed. As far as I know, nobody has to use Ion, as it's a marginal alternative among a gazillion other window managers. It's not XFascistType, pukedev, Hardware Obstruction Layer (of the Year) or other core software that the only way to avoid is to not use Linux/*nix. Which is exactly what I have done. http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/2009/defection_part_3_windows/ > My suggestion? Why not make ion controllable through IPC? maybe a fifo, > socket, tcp, whatever, to _let the user choose_ the language to be used. Why don't you do that? Actually there is mod_ionflux, that you can use to send Lua code... > I'm not saying that ion should be redesigned and reimplemented right away > either. It will definitely be rewritten from scratch at some point I guess, > so why not keep this in mind when the time comes? Ion is not being developed. For details on any possible future, see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general/9056 -- Tuomo
