Re: The Revenge of the Geeks

I ended up trying to use Java for scripting at one point (since
Minecraft made it look like maybe this made sense), and ended up using
my own custom mini-JVM (using a JavaME like subset, mostly due to JNI
frustration), but soon enough realized that it didn't really make a
particularly great scripting language (didn't really fit in well with
the use case, and I couldn't readily "eval()" it).

(I also evaluated using .NET and/or Mono and C# for scripting, but this
also looked like a big mess).

so, effort mostly shifted back to my custom script language, which is
more closely derived from JavaScript and ActionScript (with a lot more
elements from C, Java, C#, ... glued on). (like, hell, I will glue on
what parts I care about).

it seems to work moderately well for game-scripting tasks, without the
same level of funkiness as Lua or Python (I more prefer an at least
vaguely C/Java/C# style syntax, even if the language still has its share
of funkiness, and the controversy over whether to the use JS/AS or
Java/C# style declaration syntax, ...).

theoretically, I guess it would be a more direct competitor with Lua or
similar though.