"new" open source Hypertalk interpreter written in Java!

[ooper]

Anyone heard of OpenXion HyperTalk interpreter in open source form written in Java? The timestamps show that works's been going on even as late as mid-december 2011...

Not quite like Livecode, but it is file-based very interesting indeed:

http://www.openxion.org/
http://code.google.com/p/openxion/

[Sean O'Connor]

Interesting, yes but i dont fancy the idea of faffing around with the commandline.lol I still think LC is a better option;-)

[sturgis]

I messed with it some a while back. But LC is just so nice it didn't stand much chance. May mess with it again just because.

[FourthWorld]

I believe OpenXION is the work of Rebecca Bettencourt, one of the great minds of the xTalk world. She'd began that work years before LiveCode announced their FOSS plans, and given that OpenXION is CLI-only while LiveCode is both CLI and GUI, I'm not sure how far it'll go in terms of adoption.

Just the same, it's an incredible labor of love on her part, well crafted with all the genius she's exhibited over the years.

[sturgis]

Just started looking at it again. Yeah it is pretty amazing! And yes this is the work of Rebecca Bettencourt but the sample scripts say to call her beckie. It seems to run really well. Wonder how difficult it would be to shoehorn a gui on there.

The initial start up is slightly slow (but not bad) and once its going it seems to be smokin fast.

[andrewferguson]

I have used it and I really like it. I find it usefull for small task that you would normally do in the command line.
Andrew