Re:Kindle Development Kit
by francoisdevlin on Thursday January 21, 2010 @10:13AM
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Or, you could hope for Java and use Clojure :)
Yeah you can embed various languages into C-based and Java-based platforms. It's not quite the same thing as the official platform being based on such languages.
The official platform will always have more mindshare, and thus support, in the way of things like:
- open source code
- developer support/discussion
- systems libraries designed with the strengths/weaknesses of the platform in mind
Re:Kindle Development Kit
by francoisdevlin on Thursday January 21, 2010 @11:41AM
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Play with Clojure's Java interop facilities. You'll find you get all three of those points for free.
Lua's designed to be embedded, no? And it loads into C, which is a strict subset of Objective-C, so that should be relatively straightforward. Same with Guile Scheme, no?
Re:Kindle Development Kit
by probablycorey on Thursday January 21, 2010 @11:56AM
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It's called iPhone Wax! A Lua/Objective-C Bridge http://github.com/probablycorey/wax
The laptop in the top banner appears to have some kind of curly-brace language code open in Eclipse. By the look of the syntax highlighting and flow of indentation, my guess would be Java (or possibly C++).
> It will never happen of course. But I wish someone would do it.
Amen.
Re:Kindle Development Kit
by jamesbritt on Thursday January 21, 2010 @11:47AM
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"The laptop in the top banner appears to have some kind of curly-brace language code open in Eclipse."
Which may just be $StockPhotoOfDevEnvironment
I kind of have an insane dream where maybe instead of going for the usual platform candidate of say, a C derived language, Java platform or some kind of Web derived platform (widgets, WebOS et al), maybe someone will take a risk on doing something different.
Imagine if the Kindle platform was say, Scheme or Lua based? With a very simple (shallow not deep) set of libraries to access the screen, storage and network facilities.
It will never happen of course. But I wish someone would do it.