[Kde-games-devel] scripting languages

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hi all =)

just read Paolo's very nice blog entry about the progress made in kboard:

	http://pcapriotti.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/kboard-an-update/

in it, Paolo notes that it is using Lua for scripting. out of curiosity ... 
why Lua? i know it's popular among certain online games, but other than 
that ... =)

personally, i'd love to see more and more KDE apps that support scripting 
supporter either-or-both QtScript / Kross. they do have slightly different 
approaches, but if we can get enough apps with JavaScript support (which we 
get with either QtScript or Kross) then we can start to offer a 
scripting "lingua franca" for desktop apps.

people can then learn one language (that they may well already know) and go 
nuts in kde.

however, i'm sure there's a very good reason for Lua in this case. as such, 
i'm curious to know what it is =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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