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Hi all,

I've been automating workflows for Fusion in lua. Recently I'm working for a television network to automate workflows in Adobe After Effects. They utilise javascript as their main language and must say that feels much more comfortable to work with than lua. Just the ability alone to reuse thousands of javascript code that I already wrote for other projects is amazing. Are there any plans to make the fusion scripting engine javascript based? I know lua is for portability and speed, but I have to say I don't care so much for automisation work. Is it an idea to add javascript and leave lua in there for the fuses functionality?

Just a thought for an amazing product!

Kind regards,
Nick

Have you investigated learning Python? Javascript is fairly uncommon in VFX pipelines, but Python's everywhere, including Fusion.

Though personally I prefer Lua's friendlier syntax. I hate tracking down missing semi-colons.

Sure! I love python, as much as i love lua. They're both great, and I'm glad Fusion has a very good API going. But like I said, nothing beats the comfort of being able to reuse code already written, without the need to port it, and that code happens to be written in javascript. But I'm happy as it is. It's also worth mentionning that there is a Javascript to Lua transpiler so I might use that in the future if I want to recycle code without having to port. Though the required Lua version is 5.2 and Fusion is on 5.1, so there may be some problems with that until they update the Lua binaries.