ivo welch wrote:
hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer
language in the future?
indeed. most useful script are already converted to lua (mtx-* files
that run on top of mtxrun); the advantage is that mtxrun has a built in
filedatabase handler (so we don't use kpsewhich at all) and is pretty fast
the only bit that is still depending on ruby is the index sorting that
is built in texexec (used by pdftex and xetex) but i could not motivate
myself to rewrite that bit
the luatx workflow only uses lua and uses luatex itself as lua
interpreter so there are no dependencies
Hans
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