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Re:Minimalism in programming language design by jhgb on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @06:23AM (#31490186)
The UI widget toolkit and the low-level image processing code are in C++ but the people involved have said that the remaining half of the application is written in Lua. Nothing to do with plugins, really.
Re:Minimalism in programming language design by Twisol on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @06:42AM (#31490311)
Cool! I'd be curious how large the codebase is, but it's cool to hear that something like Lightroom exists at all.
Re:Minimalism in programming language design by thfuran on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:05AM (#31490474)
Given that it's made by the people who created a printable document format that supports embedded videos, I'm going to assume that it's an alarming large codebase.
Re:Minimalism in programming language design by bmacho on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @08:42AM (#31491219)
The name PDF stands for portable document format (the name itself isn't that relevant, but also the intention).