Use JavaScript instead of Python for plugins.

[steida]

Python 2 or Python 3? Who cares. JavaScript is the right language.
It would boosts SublimeText plugins development.

[quarnster]

F*ck no.

[moloch]

Don't feed the trolls.

[castles_made_of_sand]

@steida

Start porting PyV8 to Python 3.3

[tanepiper]

@steida

Start porting PyV8 to Python 3.3

I would say this would be the best option - I am looking to port my Sublime-Nodejs package over, and I would mostly like to script things with JavaScript - but there is no need to embed anything like NodeJS in Sublime Text when there is PyV8.

*However* I would love to see the API fully exposed to PyV8 so you have the full option to script in either Python or JS

[facelessuser]

F*ck no.

Lol. Javascript isn't really that bad. It can actually be kind of fun. I find the browsers inconsistencies the worse part when working with JS. Take out the browsers, it is actually kind of fun...though I wish regex was better in JS.

With that said, it isn't my scripting language of choice, but I like playing with it on occasions.

[castles_made_of_sand]

Serge needs PyV8 to port Emmet to ST3: https://github.com/sergeche/emmet-sublime

I tried building it once a month or so back but it was beyond my skill/motivation level

You need C++ / boost::python / Python C API knowledge (porting changes from 2.x to 3.x)

boost::python supports python 3.3, but PyV8 also uses some `raw` C extension code

[castles_made_of_sand]

Tried again before and this time managed to build PyV8 on Python3.3, though not all the tests are passing, so there's work to be done

As well as Emmet, I had a javascript linter plugin using it, so I'm pretty interesting in getting it running.

[methehack]

I think supporting JS for plugin dev would be awesome and there'd be huge community support.

Speaking very theoretically and with only the faintest familiarity with the plugin architecture of ST, I would guess it would be possible to write a plugin that bridged the ST plugin python API to JS effectively creating a plugin that allowed for JS plugin dev. It might not even be *that* much of a hack.
All take my answer off the air

[castles_made_of_sand]

I would guess it would be possible

Pretty much. The PyV8 author himself is working on the Python 3.3 support now, so it's just a matter of time.