[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen] Would you care to back up this judgment by a few facts? One has to consider that a scripting extension for an application like ardour, with an intended audience of little to no programming knowledge, will have to be as painless and intuitive to learn and use as possible and still provide power and freedom of expression to the savvy. I know of no language that fits this bill better than python. Cheers, Tim

[Simon Jenkins] That's a very interesting read, with lots of experience from people into embedding either language it seems. "The Pythonic way is to extend rather than embed", one of the many quotes worth pondering. discussion paints it. You simply have to live with one big lock; if you get that right there's nothing keeping you from running multiple threads. Hard realtime scripting is out of the question anyway. Lua seems quite nice, yet I'm tempted to think that Python is still a wee bit more friendly towards non-programmers. But if I was an ardour architect I'd definitely give Lua serious consideration too. Cheers, Tim