Re: A scripting language purely based on GLib and GObject.

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Alif Wahid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to get feedback from people regarding whether it would be
> a good idea implementing an Object-Oriented scripting language on top
> of GLib and GObject. In fact, is there such a project out there that
> does that currently?
>
> What I'm basically talking about is a stripped down version of Python
> that is built on top of GObject and uses all the features provided by
> GLib only. That way the complete GTK+ platform could be accompanied by
> its own scripting language.
>
> I'm developing a simulator for real-time scheduling algorithms and
> queueing systems. It needs some scripting capability and Python is a
> bit too big for what I need although I've used Python and PyGTK to
> implement a prototype simulator in Python. I'm now porting that
> prototype to C using GObject simply for performance reasons. In the
> process of doing so it occurred to me that there is scope for a simple
> scripting language that makes using GObject just that little bit less
> tedious while exposing all its features more efficiently than a Python
> language binding.
>
> This is just an idea and any feedback would be very much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alif.

Lua is a smallish embeddable language and has gtk bindings iirc.

The lua book seems to be the main source of info on lua. It shows
how to interface with C which looks quite easy. I haven't used lua
tho, and it doesn't have 'proper' objects iirc, tho they explain how
to get object like behaviour somewhere.