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Or perhaps skip it altogether. Most of my “family” apps is just quick hacks in JavaScript. Simple to throw together, runs on everything with a browser, like th
by CuriousSkeptic 7y ago
Or perhaps skip it altogether.
Most of my “family” apps is just quick hacks in JavaScript. Simple to throw together, runs on everything with a browser, like the tv, and is easily published on anything serving static files, like github pages.
Edit: For some more hobby like projects C# works out quite nicely though. I’d say it’s probably easier to stick with the beaten path here if not seeing a particular advantage from a functional language. I hear F# is quite nice as far as a functional languages go though.
- sdegutis 7y agoI've been wanting for a while a lightweight Electron alternative that doesn't use web views, just native APIs, and uses Lua instead. So it would be an .exe file that looks for a main.lua somewhere, and runs it, giving access to modules that wrap the Win32 API in high-level functionality. Then you could run a command that combines the .exe and the main.lua into a new .exe file that you can distribute. It would be super lightweight and wouldn't even need a compiler to be installed to be able to make tiny lightweight apps.
- CuriousSkeptic 7y agoThe nerd in me just saw a great application of a futamura projection. ;)
- DisownedWheat 7y agoSo something like LÖVE2D with wrapped Win32 APIs? That would be super cool, I wonder if anyone has done something like that.
- sdegutis 7y agoI know there are Win32 Lua APIs. Maybe this is a 10 line windows app that just loads those in a host that loads main.lua?