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Steroids
on
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2. What is
Lua
all about
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3. http://www.lua.org/about.html
“Lua is a powerful, fast,
lightweight, embeddable
scripting language.”
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4. Rationale
Extending C/C++ applications with a
configuration / scripting engine
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5. 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 into portable bytecode
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6. Rationale
Extending C/C++ applications with a
configuration / scripting engine
Tiny core (150kB)
Pure ANSI C
Simple C API
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7. Rationale
Extending C/C++ applications with a
configuration / scripting engine
DSL building kit
Provides only basic features
And a powerful runtime
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8. A language gaining momentum
Video games App scripting
World of Warcraft Adobe Lightroom
Havoc physics Redis (key-value
engine store)
AI scripting
Mobile Embedded
Corona SDK Brew MP
Moai (Qualcomm)
LÖVE eLua (Petrobras)
AAF (Sierra Wireless)
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9. What
is
missing
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10. IDE
support
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12. Rationale
A tool that follows Lua’s philosophy
Providing lots of modern features while
remaining easily embeddable in larger
systems.
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13. However…
Lua strengths
Dynamic
Embeddable
are double-edged swords
that make tooling support tedious.
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14. Editor
VS.
Dynamic
code
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16. LDT
for m2m development
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17. m2m.eclipse.org MQTT broker
Wireless gateway Mobile phone
Wireless (Zigbee) sensors
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18. Two Lua applications
Embedded Mobile
Aleos Application Corona
Framework SDK .
Collects Zigbee data on Subscribes to MQTT
device’s serial port messages
Publishes MQTT messages Displays sensor data with
a fancy UI
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19. What’s
Next
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20. LDT Roadmap
LDT 0.8 will be in Juno
Content-assist (pending CQ)
Beta product here: http://goo.gl/NZgCc
Execution environments
Next…
Launch configurations (w/ embedded interpreter)
Pre-bundled execution environments
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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
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22. Useful links
Lua
Main site http://lua.org
Kepler project http://www.keplerproject.org/
LDT
Koneki http://www.eclipse.org/koneki/
Installation http://download.eclipse.org/koneki/updates
Wiki http://wiki.eclipse.org/Koneki
Forum http://www.eclipse.org/forums/eclipse.koneki
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