- On 2008-07-20 Jack jack@rybn.org wrote :
Le 19 juil. 08 à 16:40, marius schebella a écrit :
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
As a test yes, but not for the release. It's changing too fast right now to maintain backwards compatibility, so including it would cause more problems than it would solve.
I am not sure, if it really changes, or if it only adds new
features. I think the big problems (file naming, loader) are solved, but not sure. I worked a lot with py/pyext and pdj in the past (which are also candidates for pdx), but pdlua is the only scripting tool that can easily integrate the language as a static library, because it is so small. maintainance should be easier than with python and java.And what about PHP, it would be nice to have access directly to this
language with Pd, there is a lot of people knowing this language and
it is useful with MySQL and with query for the web ? It is often
installed on computer with Apache server and MySQL with LAMP, MAMP or
WAMP. ++
I think in this case Lua really has some advantages over PHP. It is designed to be used as en embedded scripting and configuration language. The source is extremely portable (99% ANSI C) and compact (compiler + runtime typically < 150Kb), and runs completely standalone without the need for other libraries.
PHP might add too much overhead. It has a huge API for all kind of (mostly web-related) things, it is much harder to embed in existing applications, brings in tons of dependencies and is *much* bigger then Lua or TCL.