Re: Other programming languages & LilyPond

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 02/12/13 22:20, David Kastrup wrote:
> Scheme _is_ its scripting language.

How much scope is there for creating a stable "scripting API" which could be 
used via Scheme (default) or any arbitrary language of choice, so long as 
someone writes bindings for that language?

I ask because in our earlier discussion about tweaking, we discussed how large 
numbers of tweaks render a score effectively tied to a given version of 
Lilypond.  But if there can be a promise, "This scripting API will be 
future-proof," then maybe that kind of impact can be reduced, and a side benefit 
would be the potential to script with languages other than Scheme.

Obviously any such API would cover only a subset of the possible tweaks to 
Lilypond, but that'd be effectively the point, separating tweaking into "safe" 
and "unsafe" things to mess around with.