{"id":194,"date":"2008-10-09T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/lua-in-lightroom\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:29:29","slug":"lua-in-lightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/lua-in-lightroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Lua in Lightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the points that I discussed in my PyConUK keynote was the role (or lack thereof) of dynamic languages in desktop software development. I know that some people believe that desktop software is dead, but I am not one of them. I think that the nature of desktop software is changing, but that it is still relevant. In my discussion of dynamic languages and desktop software, I used the example of Adobe&#8217;s Lightroom, as the best example of commercial software that is written in a dynamic language. Lightroom is written in Lua, and according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troygaul.com\/LrExposedC4.html\">presentation<\/a> by Troy Gaul, 63% of the code written by the Lightroom team is Lua (there is a bunch of C code for the low level image processing code, which is shared with Adobe Camera Raw). A number of people at PyConUK had no idea of the role of Lua in Lightroom, which is unsurprising. The only reason that I knew was that I was following Lightroom as a photography nut, and the information flew by on some boards. Troy&#8217;s presentation is pretty illuminating, so if you are interested in dynamic languages in desktop applications, you should watch the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the points that I discussed in my PyConUK keynote was the role (or lack thereof) of dynamic languages in desktop software development. I know that some people believe that desktop software is dead, but I am not one of them. I think that the nature of desktop software is changing, but that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[103,113],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phUVc-38","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}