Is C++ forbidden?

[Tyrion3000]

Is C++ forbidden in Premake's development? I am working on something that may require C++ and plain old ANSI-C language alone itself might not be enough to work. I just want to be sure

[nickclark2016]

Can you provide some more context? For core development, you're right, there's no C++ in the code base. There's nothing preventing C++ in binary plugins outside of the core repo.

I'd like to understand more info about what feature you want to add, as well as why it cannot be written in C.

[Tyrion3000]

I am sorry I took so long to answer. I was busy and forgot about the discussion. Yes, it will access to C and Lua. But it is not going modify the main command line executable directly. The plan was to have another executable alongside premake called Premake-gui.exe, where most of the changes would occur. But something is telling me there might be no dice.

[lolrobbe2]

what would be the goal/usage of this GUI?

[Tyrion3000]

The original goal of this 'GUI' was gonna be a peripheral interface to the command-line interface of Premake. After looking at my code, I realized I was gonna need srlua and bin2c.lua, as well as probably the lua bytecode compiler (luac.c) to make all of that work effectively.

[Jarod42]

The original goal of this 'GUI' was gonna be a peripheral interface to the command-line interface of Premake.

And for me, then you just have to call premake as executable, and not as library (as IDE works with compilers).

[lolrobbe2]

Isn't this very simmilar to what i have been doing whit premake tools (extensions, plugins)