What do you look for in a scripting language?
- by Jon Purdy
I'm writing a little embedded language for another project. While game development was not its original intent, it's starting to look like a good fit, and I figure I'll develop it in that vein at some point.
Without revealing any details (to avoid bias), I'm curious to know:
What features do you love in a scripting language for game development?
If you've used Lua, Python, or another embedded language such as Tcl or Guile as your primary scripting language in a game project, what aspects did you find the most useful?
Language features (lambdas, classes, parallelism)
Implementation features (performance optimisations, JIT, hardware acceleration)
Integration features (C, C++, or .NET bindings)
Or something entirely different?
