00:43 <ktemkin> lua is very, very nice for that kind of thing

00:48 <whitequark> yep

00:48 <whitequark> tcl isn't *too* bad too, though it does have quite a few warts

00:49 <whitequark> really, the main thing is that both of these are much more manageable than python to just about everyone involved except for the end user (and even then)

04:20 <kc8apf> I'm using webasm instead of embeddable languages more and more.

04:20 <whitequark> that seems kinda orthogonal here, doesn't it?

04:21 <whitequark> since the purpose of lua or python in nextpnr is to provide a nice user-exposed API

04:21 <kc8apf> Eh, let them use whatever language they want as long as it can be turned into wasm

04:22 <whitequark> and get stuck doing three times as much work because you need to go through the C ABI?

04:23 <whitequark> i think this would make sense after wasm interfaces land, though

04:25 <kc8apf> So far it hasn't been much of a problem for the oddball apis I've been working with

04:33 <whitequark> mm

04:34 <whitequark> i'm curious why it worked well for you, now