Re: When to use Lua

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Jason T. Slack wrote:
> I stumbled upon Lua when reading about Adobe Lightroom.
>
> I write a text editor and backup software, under what circumstances 
> would I want to use Lua in my applications? What does it do for me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jason


With respect to text editing, you might want to look at Scite 
(www.scintilla.org) for ideas. There's a version that's had Lua embedded 
for various tasks. See http://gisdeveloper.tripod.com/scite.html

You could write a backup utility using Lua for most of the glue, leaving 
the guts to be written as dll extensions. Toss in wxLua and you've got 
potential for a GUI based platform-independent utility.

Dave LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA