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New iPhone Wax Version: New XML, JSON, SQLite Extensions More

2010-03-08 16:00
iPhone Wax is a framework that lets you write native iPhone apps in Lua. Developing in Lua is fast and objects are garbage collected. Wax bridges Objective-C and Lua using the Objective-C runtime. With Wax, anything you can do in Objective-C is automatically available to you in Lua. Wax has been in active development since it was unveiled in September and has just released version v0.9: Along with new XML, JSON and SQLite extensions, the new version uncouples much of the development from Xcode, allows all code 8212; even the UIApplicationDelegate 8212; to be done in Lua, and supports easier usage from the command line. v0.9 features these updates: Run tests from the command line with rake test Interact with your app from the command line with the Wax Interactive Console using rake repl Added key/value support so IB outlets can be created and referencedВ in Lua For people using legacy code or only using Lua for portions of your app: uou can init and call classes created in Lua via Objective-C Lots of syntax cleanup and descriptive error messages added Run your app from the command line with rake run Reload your app from the terminal with SIGQUIT or Control- 8212; no need to recompile and run You can download/clone Wax on GitHub.
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