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From: "Iruatã Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] lua9: lua interpreter with plan9 bindings
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:34:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABJnqBS3yXXdBpHWAWwkJMQV-xiA+8BCoEuCoHo=9wtsxr18nQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1CDCD3C0DEBDEFDECE483FEBDAA3DB6A@gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:20 AM <telephil9@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Building on the lua port by staalmannen (http://github.com/staalmannen/lua), I wrote a custom version of the lua interpreter including bindings to some plan9 libraries.
> I feel that lua is a simple (and good enough) scripting language which makes writing GUI code more convenient than in C.
> For the time being, this includes bindings for libdraw but I plan to extend this to other plan9 libraries in the future (libplumb for instance).
>

Nice work!
I imagine you wrote a custom interpreter because Plan 9 does not have
a well established dynamic library mechanism. Do you plan on embedding
everything into the interpreter?


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-27 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-27  8:20 telephil9
2020-10-27 10:34 ` Iruatã Souza [this message]
2020-10-27 10:41   ` [9front] " telephil9
2020-10-28 20:47     ` raingloom
2020-10-29  6:33       ` telephil9
2020-10-29 11:38         ` Iruatã Souza
2020-10-29 12:09     ` Ethan Gardener
2020-10-28 11:06 ` Ethan Gardener

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