livecode redis

[keliko]

redis for livecode server will be very helpful. Hopefully this will happen soon.

[richmond62]

That's a wonderful message because it gives no idea whatsoever what "redis" might be.

If you mean this:

https://redis.io/
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it is scriptable in LUA

which would be a bit odd if it were somehow "folded into" LiveCode.

An explanation of what exactly you mean, rather than you
slightly off-handed on-liner, would be really interesting.

[richmond62]

Lua:

https://www.lua.org/about.html

has a web-page full of dogmatic statements that make me feel a bit uneasy:

"Lua is currently the leading scripting language in games."

This has a link to a web-page from 2009:

http://www.satori.org/2009/03/the-engin ... l-results/

Which doesn't seem to have much to do with Lua.

"Lua is portable": although the platforms it mentions are only UNIX and Windows
and portable systems (Android, iOS, BREW, Symbian, Windows Phone).

So: No Macintosh and no Linux: not such a good start.

[FourthWorld]

Can you describe what you're envisioning in more detail?

Redis has a rich collection of APIs. Perhaps a mix of their CLI and HTTP interfaces might get you started with what you need immediately.