To be honnest: I would not recomment LUA to anyone as everydays dynamic languge. It was not made for this. Its a scripting language, extension language, and does a perfect job in this area, like for example in Renoise. But for everything else its not the best choice. Actuall no one ever claimed it would be.
If you need a language to solve some small problems like text parsing and stuff, use Python or anything else that “feels good” to you.
If you think you want to do something for Renoise later on, use LUA - later on. The language won’t be the problem.
i think i will wait and see what the scripting capable renoise guys come up with before i try anything,im sure there will be some nice useble stuff released
Okay that makes sense, but I’ll just stick with this now since I already started. It’s not a complicated script, and maybe I can reuse it inside Renoise later on.
Rest assured: the more time and effort Renoise devs and alphatesters put into 2.6, the more advanced and bugfree will it be. Quite many people are currently waiting for 2.6, but nobody will be happy with a half-baked release.
If we really want to use Renoise’s Lua scripting for attracting more women at the beach this coming summer, we will have to silently wait in the shadows.
Because he didn’t expected cool things to rise during development that allow more time to write extra’s for it to make it more usable
But eventually, it has to go into beta, else we won’t get more cool stuff
Indeed. It has been said many times before that Renoise team does not reveal planned release dates, not even rough estimates, yet you still think that this time is different, and ask that question?
Release date of “in the future” is the smartest answer anyone can give you in either way. So stop complaining.
Don’t expect someone who’s only sporadically reading the boards to use the search function for stuff like “Does the Renoise team reveal planned release dates?” - As it was mentioned before, with the release of the 2.5 beta, there were comments about “2.6 coming right after”. That’s why I asked. If it takes more time, there’s no problem at all. There’s no grief in waiting a bit longer for 2.6, but asking if there’s some kind of release date has to be legitimate without someone jumping you by making some snide remark.
Sorry about that. I shouldn’t assume that everyone live in the forums like me.
But to answer your question, there is no planned release date. I personally wouldn’t dare to even guess at one, cause the scope of the currently developed features is blurry by definition. Don’t worry though, as usual, you probably don’t have to wait for too long for the release.
My african-american friend is very smart. We’ve been friends for over 8 years. I benefit from his generosity and intelligence as in the past he has fixed my computer from viruses. His family and african-american friends like me too. Anyway, he was telling that Lua is the number one language used for video game scripting. So maybe someone will make a script for renoise that the users can play a game of Tetris in one of the tracker columns.
Well, One could already start preparing a good clone of Nibbles…
I think that could be achieved in Lua in general, should not be hard to port it either.
I rekon we should start a topic on possible lua projects for 2.6 , I know the devs don’t normally give out too much info on new releases but taktic gave out a fair bit on the 2.5 beta topic . I think it’d be good if we got ideas going now on possible extensions and get some ideas flowing .
For me a if we could make a piano roll using the api that would be amazing and I’m sure every ones got tons of ideas .
I kinda think the opposite… “scripting” and “API” is MUCH to vague for me to even remotely think about it until I have an executable to play with.
I also think it’s just too big a thing to be covered with .1 release, so people shouldn’t expect too much from 2.6 - it’s the start of a new era, not the new era, you know - and the devs shouldn’t put too much pressure on themselves to get it 100% right the first time…
