[HN Gopher] Lunatic Python: Lua Inside Python, and Python Inside... ___________________________________________________________________ Lunatic Python: Lua Inside Python, and Python Inside Lua Author : scrollaway Score : 11 points Date : 2021-04-03 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (labix.org) (TXT) w3m dump (labix.org) | chaps wrote: | Hah, this is great. | | Way back when I played minecraft, we used a mod called | OpenComputers, which was basically a lua-based terminal inside | minecraft. It had a package manager, python, and pastebin for | managing code. It was really neat! Still think it's funny that it | was Java -> Lua -> Python. | | Ended up using that to "3d print" objects to make png murals | using a python backend, some jad/sed/awk/grep, lua, and a python | "frontend". The 3d printer allowed specifying color, but since | you could also specify colors by x/y/z coords of other blocks, I | decided to constrain the project to color definitions that way. | Because masochism, probably. Wasn't easy, since block definitions | were sometimes in java, hence jad. By FAR the jankiest project | I've ever worked on, but damn did I learn a lot along the way, | including some machine learning basics. | brutal_chaos_ wrote: | This is a really neat bridge IMHO. I'd like to see more of this | type of work. Language bridging. Imagine a Jupyter Notebook being | able to use all different kinds of languages together in said | notebook. Just an example use case, I'm sure there are plenty, | plenty more. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-03 23:00 UTC)