Re: Recommendations for scripting/extension languages for Cocoa apps
Re: Recommendations for scripting/extension languages for Cocoa apps
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for scripting/extension languages for Cocoa apps
- From: Andrew Garber <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 05:54:11 -0700
I wrote a Cocoa recently which executed a bash shell script of mine. I
used NSTask to accomplish this. I included the script as a resource for
my ProjectBuilder project. Bash scripts are great, especially when it
comes to regular expressions. Best of all, bash comes pre-installed on
Mac OS X, so you won't have to tell users of your app to install it. I
guess you could also pass strings to and from the command line using
stdin and stdout, or the system() function.
Andrew
On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 02:21 AM, Jason Alexander wrote:
I'm looking for a good scripting/extension language to embed in my
Cocoa app. My first thought was to use something like guile since,
based on my experiences w/ Emacs, execution of interpreted lisp
functions can be pretty fast. But, since I'm having difficulty
compiling the most recent version of guile, and am also completely
ignorant as to whether something better might exist, I thought I'd
ask for recommendations.
The eventual aim is to implement something like an interactive shell
in which users can type commands which are executed by the app.
Given this, I suppose I have a slight preference for a language whose
syntax is more like C or Java than Lisp, since most users would find
that syntax more natural. Another desiderata is how easy it is to
integrate the scripting language with a standard Cocoa-document PB
project.
Thanks,
Jason
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