Re: LuaMotif

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

Am 06.04.12 18:28, schrieb steve donovan:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>> What would be _really_ neat would be a common Lua GUI interface that
>> could be supported by any of these various GUI libraries...
> 
> It is a fascinating idea; I've done declarative-style coding in
> LuaJava with Swing and it was much easier. It is _totally_ possible to
> have a common interface that could be implemented by suitable backends
> like lua-gtk, etc.  The idea would not be to go for a 'full' package,
> because that would be too big for embedding] but just the basic common
> widget set and operations.
> 
> Personally, I just find the big toolkits too big - if you want to give
> your colleagues a small utility, then shipping it with 6-9 megs of
> shared libraries defeats the idea of 'small utility'.

I like the state of affairs we have achieved with luamotif.  It is
small, functional, and an industry standard.  And our customers like it.