Posted by Tom, 2008-03-23 Permalink Latest posts List of all posts
This quick test shows that using Rhino it is possible to call LWJGL functions from Javascript programs. It might be useful for quickly testing OpenGL snippets or writing cool tiny games.
John Carmack would be proud.
Nowadays it's possible to glue almost any two languages together and use one to control the other or use it's libraries. When investigating the TinyCC compiler I wrote about last time, I was amazed to find a Python module that uses TinyCC to compile and run C code on multiple platforms. That means that it's not only possible to script C programs using Python (with Boost::Python or whatever) but also to script Python programs using C!
You can try the Rhino example yourself - get this 3MB package with source code and all dependencies. Don't forget to add -Djava.library.path=lwjgl-1.1.4/native/win32 to the VM arguments - or import this Eclipse launch configuration which will do that for you.
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