From: Eleanor McHugh Date: 2010-07-04T22:56:24+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] RubyGoLightly Progress Report On 3 Jul 2010, at 15:49, Martin DeMello wrote: > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Eleanor McHugh > wrote: >> I seem to have been missing in action for the best part of six months so I thought it was about time I put together a progress report and pimped the vapourware in hopes of finding some likeminded miscreants/dilettantes to turn it into something more substantial. >> >> There're probably only a handful of people on here who'll be interested in what follows so I've marked it OT for those of you interested exclusively in Ruby. Feel free to press delete, I won't be offended :) > > Fascinating stuff. I've always wanted to play around with Go, but have > been putting it off because I'm dabbling in too many languages > already. (My long term plan, though, is to use it to write a modal > text editor with an embedded scheme as its scripting language. > Basically a vim clone but using a real language to extend itself. Go > seems like an excellent choice of language to write the core in.) I still find myself missing Ruby conveniences such as proper exception handling and first-class meta-programming support, but it's a remarkably productive language compared to C(++) or Java. It's also got a nice simple testing framework that includes benchmarking support which I may port to Ruby at some point - it's much simpler than all the TDD/BDD tools (which is probably why I like it). There are a couple of Scheme implementations in Go which might fit the needs of your editor, but if they don't then let me know and I'll see if the GoLightly Scheme can be turned into a scripting engine. Ellie Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains http://feyeleanor.tel ---- raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason