He might need to take a year off to master Common Lisp though.
Dunno, a year off sounds nice, but you don't need to wait that long to be competitive. Better find a GUI and an obfuscation solution for a language you already know now, than to dick around with new languages when you have a product to finish and ship.
If I must. I would do the app in Python or whatever, then spend 2-3 weeks designing my own custom loader. Some C-based stub code packer that load a python interpreter as a shared library then my code. Wrap everything up with some compression and verify integrity with some crypto.
Nearly every embedded scripting language can be shoe-horned with custom packer like this that looks a lot like Java's ClassLoader. If you want to take this to its engineering extreme, you might even be able to get remote binary update functionality, by fetching packed tarballs of new code from your server, after the necessary key exchange.
Dunno, a year off sounds nice, but you don't need to wait that long to be competitive. Better find a GUI and an obfuscation solution for a language you already know now, than to dick around with new languages when you have a product to finish and ship.
If I must. I would do the app in Python or whatever, then spend 2-3 weeks designing my own custom loader. Some C-based stub code packer that load a python interpreter as a shared library then my code. Wrap everything up with some compression and verify integrity with some crypto.
Nearly every embedded scripting language can be shoe-horned with custom packer like this that looks a lot like Java's ClassLoader. If you want to take this to its engineering extreme, you might even be able to get remote binary update functionality, by fetching packed tarballs of new code from your server, after the necessary key exchange.