Hi all, I am a newcomer to ocaml and want to create a scriptable program. What do I mean by scriptable? The program will source file in which the user can define configurations and some functions. So when the program is invoked, it will call some of these functions and execute them based on the co…

two separate approaches to ocaml+lua: lua 5.1 bindings: GitHub - pdonadeo/ocaml-lua: Lua bindings for OCaml lua 2.5 implementation in pure ocaml: GitHub - lindig/lua-ml: An embeddable Lua 2.5 interpreter implemented in OCaml

[image] espioka: How can I achieve this in ocaml? I am fine with using Lua, scheme, or any language for scripting. I am fine with using ocaml as well, as long as the user experience can be as simple as writing their functions in the config file. [image] espioka: It looks like dynlink is a…

[image] Haudegen: pyml is a very good option. Currently only up to ocaml 5.1

Sorry, I didn’t know that. We are still on 4.14.2.

As an example, soupault makes an excellent use of lua-ml to allow user-written widgets.

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Haudegen September 11, 2024, 7:16pm 2

If you are OK with writing you scripts in Python, pyml is a very good option.

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