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TLC (The Tiny Lua Cocoa Bridge) RC1 Released

40 points by fyolnish 15y ago

mrcharles 15y ago
Awesome! I love Lua and I love integrating it into everything I do. I'll get some use out of this.
gwillen 15y ago
Wow, this is great. I recently spent a bunch of time integrating Lua and ObjC for a project; I'll have to see if I can replace all that glue with this library, or if I have something I can contribute to it. EDIT: What's the license on this? There's no indication at the top of the source, or anywhere that I can see. It turns out not to be the same as what I'm doing -- I'm calling from ObjC into Lua and back -- but there are still bits I'd love to reuse, if I could.
- seany 15y ago
  LuaCocoa does both sides of the bridge. You might try that.
- fyolnish 15y ago
  The license is ISC, so you can do whatever you want with it. in order to call back into lua you can either use the standard C api. (This file from another project of mine might be a useful starting point: https://github.com/aptiva/Tranquil/blob/master/Tranquil/Core/ScriptContext.m https://github.com/aptiva/Tranquil/blob/master/Tranquil/Core...) Or use addMethod to add a lua function as a method to a class (You can use createClass to create a new class) I'll add a subclassing demo to the readme later today
YuriNiyazov 15y ago
If someone with more knowledge than me would answer this I'd appreciate it: Does this mean I can write a full-blown iOS app in Lua? Or will there be technical and TOS limitations?
- jacktoole1 15y ago
  I can't respond on technical, as I haven't used TLC. As to Apple's TOS (I can't seem to find TLC's), I'm pretty sure you can write a full-blown iOS app in Lua. You can already write a complete iOS game in Lua: http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/ http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/ . Around summer 2010 they changed their terms so that embedded, non-JIT languages are allowed, as long as all executed code is bundled in your application (not downloaded). Many apps already embedded lua. I don't think using TLC would affect an app's chances of being approved.
  - seany 15y ago
    LuaJIT requires mprotect which was disabled in version of iOS pre 5.0. It has been secretly activated in 5.0+, but it's unclear if apple will allow anyone to use it. Feel free to try and let us know the results.

40 points by fyolnish 15y ago

Awesome! I love Lua and I love integrating it into everything I do. I'll get some use out of this.

Wow, this is great. I recently spent a bunch of time integrating Lua and ObjC for a project; I'll have to see if I can replace all that glue with this library, or if I have something I can contribute to it. EDIT: What's the license on this? There's no indication at the top of the source, or anywhere that I can see. It turns out not to be the same as what I'm doing -- I'm calling from ObjC into Lua and back -- but there are still bits I'd love to reuse, if I could.

seany 15y ago
LuaCocoa does both sides of the bridge. You might try that.
fyolnish 15y ago
The license is ISC, so you can do whatever you want with it. in order to call back into lua you can either use the standard C api. (This file from another project of mine might be a useful starting point: https://github.com/aptiva/Tranquil/blob/master/Tranquil/Core/ScriptContext.m https://github.com/aptiva/Tranquil/blob/master/Tranquil/Core...) Or use addMethod to add a lua function as a method to a class (You can use createClass to create a new class) I'll add a subclassing demo to the readme later today

YuriNiyazov 15y ago

If someone with more knowledge than me would answer this I'd appreciate it: Does this mean I can write a full-blown iOS app in Lua? Or will there be technical and TOS limitations?

jacktoole1 15y ago
I can't respond on technical, as I haven't used TLC. As to Apple's TOS (I can't seem to find TLC's), I'm pretty sure you can write a full-blown iOS app in Lua. You can already write a complete iOS game in Lua: http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/ http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/ . Around summer 2010 they changed their terms so that embedded, non-JIT languages are allowed, as long as all executed code is bundled in your application (not downloaded). Many apps already embedded lua. I don't think using TLC would affect an app's chances of being approved.
- seany 15y ago
  LuaJIT requires mprotect which was disabled in version of iOS pre 5.0. It has been secretly activated in 5.0+, but it's unclear if apple will allow anyone to use it. Feel free to try and let us know the results.