[GD-General] Off the shelf scripting languages

[Marc F. <ma...@ma...>]

Hi,

I'm currently having a look at a scripting language to integrate in my game
engine. Building a complete home-made solution is not very realistic due to
the time I can spend on this point, so I'm looking for an existing and well
established one. It seems that Python, Lua and Ruby are popular choices in
that topic.

Does anybody have some pointers that could help me in comparing them and
choosing one, knowing that the criterions are :
- Easiness in binding with C++ classes/integration in the current engine
- Simplicity of its syntax (to have quick up-and-running users/coders)
- Lightweight
- Portable (for console games mainly)
- Extra tools available (debugger, editors, win32 syntax highlighting
controls ...)

thanks.

-Marc Fascia

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