Lua on Steroids
- 1. Lua Steroids on Sierra Wireless Proprietary and Confidential January 21, 2010 1
- 2. Gaetan Morice Embedded Tools Manager at Sierra Wireless Koneki project co-lead at Eclipse
- 4. http://www.lua.org/about.html “Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.”
- 5. Rationale Extending C/C++ applications with a configuration / scripting engine.
- 6. Rationale Extending C/C++ applications with a configuration / scripting engine. • Based on a virtual machine • Can load source code / read char streams • And compile it to portable bytecode
- 7. Rationale Extending C/C++ applications with a configuration / scripting engine. • Tiny core (150kB) • Pure ANSI C • Simple C API
- 8. Rationale Extending C/C++ applications with a configuration / scripting engine. • DSL building kit • Provides only basic features • And a powerful runtime
- 9. Gaining momentum 16th on Tiobe language index http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html 19th on GitHub http://github.com/languages/Lua
- 11. IDE Support
- 13. Rationale A tool that follows Lua’s philosophy Providing lot’s of modern features while remaining easily embeddable in larger systems.
- 14. However Lua strengths Dynamic Embeddable are double-edged swords that make tooling support tedious.
- 18. Sierra Developer Studio Sierra’s IDE for ALEOS Embedded Application Framework
- 19. ??? What’s Next
- 20. LDT Roadmap Working with local interpreters Add launch configuration Supporting OOP Management of require Improvement of content-assist and scoping LuaDoc support contribution
- 21. Big thanks to Eclipse • RSE http://www.eclipse.org/tm/ • DLTK http://www.eclipse.org/dltk/ Lua • JNLua http://code.google.com/p/jnlua/ • MetaLua http://metalua.luaforge.net/ • Ldoc http://github.com/stevedonovan/LDoc
- 22. Useful links Lua • Main site http://lua.org • Kepler project http://www.keplerproject.org/ LDT • At Koneki http://www.eclipse.org/koneki/ • Update site http://download.eclipse.org/koneki/updates/ • Wiki http://wiki.eclipse.org/Koneki • Mailing List https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/koneki-dev