What programming language to choose

Question

We need to write a script that needs to process movies (using C-based ffmpeg) and also update our databases. Also there would be some thread programming to accomplish with a worker-manager design. I am thinking of writing this in Ruby is there any good language to do this, if so what is its primary advantage for choosing?

We are based on the Mac platform.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For the Mac, and if you are going to use something written in C, I would definitively use Objective-C, with the Cocoa framework. It's just the native way and primary language for OSX and it's very close to C. Might be good for dealing with ffmpeg.

Answer 2

Ruby is built in with os/x (at least in newer versions), and its a great script language.