On 23 March 2018 at 11:59, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > On Mar 23, 2018, at 8:34 AM, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com> wrote: > > On 23 March 2018 at 00:35, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: > > > Ideally this would become part of libgnucash in order to make the report > generation platform independent as well (and hence opening the way to make > it > accessible one day on android or osx platforms). This will only be > possible at > the cost of moving away from scheme as reporting engine unfortunately as > that > would not be portable... > > > lua maybe? It seems popular and portable.. and it's already on my personal > education roadmap. :) > > > Apple’s rules for iOS include *no interpreters*. That means no Guile, no > Python, no Lua, no Ruby, no Javascript. >
That's a shame. But doesn't that pretty much rule out having an easily expandable reporting engine on iOS? > > BTW, no, lua isn’t particularly popular: https://insights. > stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology > https://isocpp.org/files/papers/CppDevSurvey-2018-02-summary.pdf > > That shows percentage of all languages, not embedded scripting/configuration languages. And speaking from recent personal experience, lua seems to be gaining in popularity faster than anything else I've noticed for that purpose. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
