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Old 12-24-2014, 09:25 AM   #4
schwa
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I'd like to put in a plug for Lua. I have used many scripting languages, going back a long ways. (One of my first programs was a 50,000 line awk script that a whole business ran off of.) I get along better with some languages and worse with others.

I find Lua to be a a real pleasure to use, honestly more fun than any other scripting language I've had experience with. Within a few minutes of using the language for the first time I was working on a script that will represent a significant new feature, which will be released as part of 5.0, and be indistinguishable from functionality coded natively in REAPER. Because, really, it is functionality coded natively in REAPER, with identical access to the internals of REAPER, including access to track audio and MIDI.

I really think that the combination of Lua's ease of use, and improvements to REAPER's API, will open up an almost unlimited world of creative possibilities.
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