[ale] Any Lua users out there?

[Larry Johnson]

Hi Charles.

My only exposure to Lua has been through the tiling window manager
Ion, which uses Lua as its extension language.  I ran Ion
until the licensing weirdness started to make my head hurt.

Larry

2008/9/23 Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>:
> Anyone out there done any lua ( http://www.lua.org )? I'm 'specially curious
> about windowing library bindings, such as wxlua (
> http://wxlua.sourceforge.net/ ) or lua-gtk ( http://lua-gtk.luaforge.net/ ).
> Lua is popular for video games, and a modified lua engine ships in the
> client for World of Warcraft.
>
> I spent a good part of the last few weeks reading Roberto Ierusalimschy's
> _Programming_In_Lua_,  although my access to an actual lua interpreter was
> limited at best.
>
> Google shows some (limited) work on lua scripting for the Nokia N810
> "Hildon" window manager, and there's hints that it'd be an interesting
> project for the OLPC as well.   The wxwidgets guy seems to have played with
> lua on an N770, but nobody's actually made a package for it near's I can
> tell. Making a text-based lua interpreter package for Maemo would be pretty
> easy, and I'll try that in the near future.  There's probly an ALE talk in
> here somewheres, and maybe some other chances to add to the CV as well.
>
> -- CHS
>
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