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 — even the UIApplicationDelegate — 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 referenced 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-\ — no need to recompile and run
You can download/clone Wax on GitHub.
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