[jnicholas]

I recently started playing with Applescript Studio and am pretty impressed. I am a web developer (Java and PHP mostly) and was happy to see a way to develop light mac apps without going into C/Obj-C.

I'd really love to see apple add more official support to other languages. I think an object oriented scripting language like Python or Ruby would be a great fit and fill the niche between Applescript and Obj-C. I did see CamelBones (http://camelbones.sourceforge.net/) which lets you develop GUI apps with Perl. Has anyone here used this or know of similar projects?

[Diggory Laycock]

python:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100490/2002/10/12.html

ruby - I'm sure I heard something -
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search

seems to turn up some promising looking links.

You know that Project Builder is just a glorified text editor which uses Shell commands.

You can code in practically any language - I personally have used it for PHP and I compiled (I can hardly claim I wrote it though) a "Hello World" app as GameBoy Advance executable

[jnicholas]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:

You know that Project Builder is just a glorified text editor which uses Shell commands.

You can code in practically any language - I personally have used it for PHP and I compiled (I can hardly claim I wrote it though) a "Hello World" app as GameBoy Advance executable [/B]

What I'm interested in is the integration with the gui building tools in the way that you can use applescript to respond to and control aqua elements. Maybe a better title would be "Interface Builder and other languages"

Here's a couple of links I've found since:

Rubycocoa - http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/

Python cocoa bridge - http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/ - no docs though

An article on Mac Python development - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2...ythonnews.html

I know GUI apps can be written with other approaches like wxWindows or Tk but I haven't looked into those yet. I'd like the smoothness of the Applescript Studio approach with a language more powerful than applescript and not as deep as C