Re: win32 to lua binding

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Noel Frankinet a écrit :
> I am finishing a lua to WTL binding right now (WTL is a thin template 
> wrapper around win32,so its native win32, not .net).
> The user interface is defined in XML and the interaction in lua (like 
> XUL : HTML/javascript integration).

??? Why use XML?

Using XML in Lua is OK if you need to process XML data from the outer 
world. XML is great in interprocess communication, I think. Or for data 
that must be processed, transformed, etc.

But since Lua is, historically, basically a data description language 
<http://www.lua.org/history.html>, for such relatively closed usage, it 
would be better (more readable, easier to type (generate?), faster to 
parse) to use Lua to define the user interface.

Just my 2€c.

Beside that, this project is interesting. Well, it is unfortunate that 
there are many proprietary wrappers around Win32 API/GUI (if judging 
from some messages I see) and no clear leader on the field.

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