Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] git log --pretty=lua

[Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:22:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] git log --pretty=lua
> 
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > We've talked off and on about extending the --pretty=format
> > specifiers to something more flexible. There's also been talk
> > recently of more flexible commit-filtering (e.g., grepping
> > individual notes).  Rather than invent a new Turing-complete
> > language, I thought I'd try building on somebody else's work by
> > embedding an existing language.
> >
> > Why Lua? I don't especially like it as a language. But it's designed
> > for this purpose, which makes it very lightweight and relatively
> > simple to embed.
> 
> Personally I'd prefer a Scheme variant.

Scheme only brings up bad memories for me ;)  And while we use Lua at
$dayjob, I, like Peff, am not a huge fan of the syntax.  So turning to
the internet to solve my problem, a quick Google search for embeddable
scripting languages (assuming the heavyweights like Perl and Python are
already out) produces Lua, JavaScript or specifically SpiderMonkey [1]
(yay buzzword compliance!), Ch [2] (unfortunately closed source), and
AngelScript [3].

>From a brief read of the webpage, AngelScript looks pretty interesting.
I'm much better with (and thus preferential to) Python and Perl myself,
but I can understand anyone's reservation in bundling/depending on
libraries of that size.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SpiderMonkey
[2] http://www.softintegration.com/
[3] http://angelcode.com/angelscript/

Thanks,
Stephen