What language for plugins?

nelson - nelson1977 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 23 12:20:44 UTC 2006


hi
>
>
> Well, in theory you can of course easily use anything that can be linked
> from C. So typically, if language X can produce a dll or lib that can be
> linked into using C conventions then you are pretty much set up. But...
> the question in this case is - what do you want *to do*?
>
> Plugins are typically used when:
>
> 1. Performance is critical (C being faster for low level stuff when you
> know what to do with your bits and bytes)
> 2. There is a library written in C (or similar) you want to hook into.
> 3. You want to make calls into the OS, which typically also means
> interfacing with C libraries - so it is actually the same reason as #2
> above.



The answer is 2! I have a library written in python and I want to use it
from Squeak.


Now... why would you then want to use Python? And why do you want to
> make a plugin? If you explain that then we can answer ypu better. :)



I want to use Python because my code is in python.


regards, Göran
>
>
thanks,
  nelson
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