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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Patrick McCavery
<patrick@cakeandfile.com> wrote:
> I know many many people are writing applications as a mix of Lua and C but I
> am wondering if this is becoming more unnecessary now that we have LuaJit,
> which is pretty bloody fast.

C code are used to implement features which cannot write in Lua, or
very difficult to write in Lua.

For example, if you have a vanilla lua without any modules, how can
you do socket communication without writing any C code? how can you
play music without any C code?