Board:   [DeveloperNet] C#
Subject: Synchronet scripting
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Tue Feb 11, 2014 19:11

  Re: Asynchronous programming in the next C#
  By: Mercyful Fate to Nightfox on Tue Feb 11 2014 12:49:54

 Ni>> I think I would have preferred that Synchronet use Python as its
 Ni>> scripting language instead of JavaScript.  I like that Python code
 Ni>> looks nice (due mainly to its enforced indentation rules), but
 Ni>> JavaScript works fairly well.  To support Python, Synchronet would
 Ni>> have to provide Python bindings to its functions and objects, and I
 Ni>> highly doubt Digital Man (the author of Synchronet) is going to do
 Ni>> that any time soon. :)

 MF> Indeed, it's one the the nice things, along with it's extensive library of
 MF> objects that attracted my to Python.

Yep, that's one of the things I like about Python too.

 MF> I would thinkfor synchronet that it would be a little esier
 MF> since they already have all the javascript binding, a quick copy/past of
 MF> most of the call outs would work with just updating the calls to python.
 MF> However, anything takes time and error and there has to be the desire to
 MF> see it through. :)

Yeah, it would probably still take some significant time to do that and alsoto
test it.  In a way, it might have been good that Synchronet went with
JavaScript because I've read Python made some breakingchanges starting with
3.0 - So not all Python 2.x scripts run with Python 3.0 and vice versa.
JavaScript hasn't had that type of a change (as far as I know).  Also, I think
one of the strengths of JavaScript is its text manipulation capabilities,
including regular expressions.  I've used those quite a bit in my Synchronet
JavaScript mods - Although I'm sure Python has similar capabilities.

Nightfox

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