Re: Preferred language?

Many of the existing tools are written in shell scripting. I recommend
looking at it because it is very well written. But since it is bash it
interfaces with any other executable, so python is a good second pick.
However if you intend to do stuff that involves a lot of calls into
other executables/scripts or filesystem processing then you should
consider bash.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Sergio Tortosa Benedito
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well I'm writing this e-mail because I want to know which languages do you
> know/prefer since I might write some tools.
>
> *Python: pretty much industry standard
> *Ruby: meant to be fun, higher DSL capabilites
> *Lua: fast,small and also DSL capable (with some trickery)
> And now some other which are not so known but interesting:
> *Nim: Python + Pascal with the highest grade of metaprogamming I have ever
> seen
> *Crystal: Attempts to be compiled ruby.
> The interesting thing about crystal is it's typing  system which is a mix
> between dynamic and static, it's dynamic because var=1; var="hello"
> works,it's static because the variable's types are known at compile time.
>
> As anyone may infer, one feature I find interesting it's metaprogramming so
> we can write a small DSL (Domain Specific Language) and simplify code.
>
>
> Now my opinion: From the list the one less suited for the job it's Lua (it
> lacks some syntax sugar,also lacks standard libraries with support for some
> basic operations, and even though they exist, they are external). Python's
> limitations in metaprogramming may make a disadvantage.
>
> Anyone having feedback or any suggestion feel free to answer.
>
> (PD: I'm sending this here because I find the devel list it's pretty much
> dead)
>
> --Sergio
>
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