Compatible Languages

On Windows (*), when using ASCOM-COM as the connection, virtually all development languages, scripting languages, and scriptable tools allow use of Windows COM objects in the language's native syntax.

On WIndows, using ASCOM-COM, following development languages, scripting languages, and scriptable tools can directly use ASCOM drivers:

• C++
• Delphi Pascal
• Visual Basic 6
• FORTRAN
• C#.NET
• VisualBasic.NET
• Java (the real thing)
• COBOL
• RemObjects PascalScript
• Perl
• Python
• Tcl/Tk
• PL/1
• ReXX
• JavaScript/JScript
• VBScript
• Microsoft Office (all products!)
• Squeak Smalltalk
• Visual Smalltalk
• REALBasic
• MATLAB
• LABView
• FreePascal (Lazarus)

(*) ASCOM Alpaca brings this to Linux, MacOS, and even embedded controllers. Of course Alpaca may be used on Windows. On those platforms, the Alpaca technology is accessible from virtually any language, as it uses the widely deployed HTTP and ReST protocols.