Hi,
Of course, I'm biased, but I do think that Lua is a very stable, versatile and extensible language, and I couldn't recommend it more highly. It's very easy to learn (a week with the Programming in Lua book is usually enough, and you can get the basics in a day) but also nicely scales up to higher-order functional programming (since learning Lua, I was able to grok scheme in a way I never had before...), while still very easy to extend through C.
We've tried to keep LuaAV versatile too, keeping the interfaces to our own LuaAV modules pretty low-level and modular, following the style of Lua itself, so sometimes it might seem there's more legwork to getting something started, but the benefit is a more open-ended system that we've been able to use for live-coding, long-term installations, CAVE-like environments etc.
Not sure if I've answered your questions...
G
On Jan 4, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Raphael Santos wrote:
> Hello there,
> I just subscribed to this list today I'm now very glad to have done so. I was actually searching for another environment usable for livecoding and I got really interested in this one. Could you offer any more comments? like... stability, versatility and that kind of stuff.
> I'm no pro programmer and I don't know the language Lua, but it seems rather simple.
> Are either (Lua and Luaav) easily extensible?
> Thanks
>
> Raphael Santos
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Graham Wakefield <wakefield_at_mat.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're pleased to announce a fresh release of LuaAV (rev. 4130)!
>
> There's a binary download for OSX on the website [1]. Linux users will have to build from source for the time being (we'll post a .deb or something soon, promise!)
>
> LuaAV is an integrated programming environment based upon extensions to the Lua programming language to enable the tight real-time
> integration of computation, time, sound and space. It consists of an application for executing Lua scripts and a collection of libraries and Lua modules for sonic, visual and spatial computation.
>
> There are a few tutorials posted that should give a good overview of what it's about (especially note posting [2] for live-coding), but here's a feature list:
>
> Core Functionality
> - Interleaved scripting of sound and graphics
> - Precise scheduler with both synchronous and asynchronous timing models
> - Real-time scripting and JIT compiled audio synthesis routines
> - Cross-platform Lua modules for portable scripting
>
> Essential Lua Modules
> - Array: create and manage large blocks of memory such as images,
> audio files, geometry data, etc.
> - audio: define and generate audio synthesis routines
> - font: load and process font files using FreeType
> - gui: OpenGL-based GUI toolkit
> - Image: image file I/O
> - midi: MIDI I/O
> - opencl: high-level bindings to the OpenCL framework
> - opengl: bindings to OpenGL C API and high-level abstractions for
> textures, shaders, meshes, and common drawing routines
> - osc: Open Sound Control network messaging
> - space: spatial computation module containing vector math,
> quaternions, and spatial partitioning and collision functionality
> - video: video camera control, video file playback, and video recording
>
> Enjoy - and let us know how you get on!
>
> Graham & Wes
>
>
> [1] http://lua-av.mat.ucsb.edu
> [2] http://lua-av.mat.ucsb.edu/blog/?p=423
>
>
>
> --
> Raphael Santos
>
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