Perl support for Appcelerator Titanium?

I recently started playing with Appcelerator Titanium or Titanium for short. It’s an extremely cool tool that lets you build desktop or mobile apps using standard web technology like HTML, CSS and Javascript. The real coolness of it (to me) is that it also allows the developer to use Ruby, Python and C++ in <script> tags. The really uncool thing is that Perl is not on their radar.

But hey, Titanium is Open Source (Apache license), and the piece of code that makes those language bindings is called kroll. In this git tree you can see that they’ve created bindings for Javascript, Ruby, Python, and that they’re working on support for PHP. If my C++ skills were better, and I’d know more of Perl’s internals, I might have taken a shot at contributing, but I think there are people out there who are better at this…

So if anyone feels up to it, and would want to contribute to this potentially great product, I’d like to see it supporting Perl!


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Posted on 13 augustus '09 by Jouke, under English.

One Comment to “Perl support for Appcelerator Titanium?”

#1 Posted by scott (18.05.10 at 07:58 )

Me too… In the past I have integrated Perl into a directory service, and it can be tricky but possible. The internals of Perl are not really the hard part, it is more the internals of Titanium. I am looking at the PHP code to see how much they have had to write to join it together.