Hi Mark, I can't see any reason why not - except for time (and money).
The fact that the language has been "forked - livecode builder" means there is a precedent for changes into the way the language works. I cannot see why LCB could not be one of the "open language" variants that uses the livecode hierarchy/gui/message path etc. My original reason for funding the Kickstarter WAS the open language - to be able to write in Python/LC/JS and Visual foxpro within the same environment (we can but dream). If you have code already written working and debugged in 1 language use it as long as each languages source is translated to the LC bytecode engine. Typescript adds static typing, classes and modules to JavaScript with a transpiler - I bet if there was a Kickstarter to add a JavaScript and python script to Livecode we would get over a Million dollars - who wants to use glade or pyQT or WxPython or Tkinter. How many JavaScript and Python programmers would love to create desktop applications? I would suggest that the coding in the LC for Filemaker is much more involved - It's worth a punt Kevin? Mark? And please don't come back with the usual ripost - "if you want to program in Python use Python" - It's the Environment and the tools and the multiple deployments and and and ....... and using all those libraries in Python and JavaScript land ..... Best Lagi On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 17:56, Mark Wieder via use-livecode < [email protected]> wrote: > On 11/20/18 8:33 AM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: > > > Would it not be better to refuse to make an assumption, i.e. require an > > explicit conversion? > > While I'd love to have the option of strongly typed variables at the > scripting level, I know better than to expect that this will ever happen. > > -- > Mark Wieder > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
