jollyrancher82 Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Some people are interest in my progress with my Metascript project. Below is a link to some screenshot of it's current progress. Today I made it compile on Windows, OSX10 (Intel/PPC), and Linux systems. http://ownthebox.net/~tomb/images/Metascript/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmer Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 First of all: Call me n00b if you want, but what is metascript, and what does your thing do? Second: Cool that you got it to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 http://ownthebox.net/projects/metascript/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 So, lets say you write a program in Metascript. When run, it will not harm the host system it resides on? It only executes in a virtual environment, so in the event it crashes or does something off the wall, your main system will still be stable and running. Do I have that right? Also, when run in Metascript, will it interact with the host system to perfom real tasks on the host system, or does it just run these virtually only to test the results of the output? Guess a few of us still don't fully understand how it works. Maybe a video demonstration would help us grasp this a little better. I see the screen shots you posted for the other systems, but not sure exactly what it is I am looking at. When I want to test something I am writing, I load up XP in VMware and run things on that side of the fence to not mess up my real machine. I assume that is what Metascript is for? Or is it meant to run strictly inside of something like VMware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 think of java or python. meta script is meant to be a similar vm based language, correct TomB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 think of java or python. meta script is meant to be a similar vm based language, correct TomB? I think I get it now. Like Microsoft used to have a JavaVM instead of using Suns Java? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 boristsr has the right idea. It will execute code inside the runtime environment, if the application crashes the runtime environment, only the environment will crash, not the system. It will be solely based upon modules that developers write, and contribute, so anything the modules allow, Metascript will be able to do. For example there will be a console module, that allows input, and output from the console, a file module, allowing file input and output. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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