RE: Why Lua is not more popular

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Joe Eaves
> Sent: woensdag 18 september 2013 12:13
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Re: Why Lua is not more popular
> 
> On 18 September 2013 10:53, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us>
> wrote:
> >> OK, enough people have told me that they are interested.
> >> This is now officially a side project of mine now :)
> >
> > Excellent initiative, sir!
> 
> Agreed, nice one!
> 
> This is definitely a good idea, I think it will certainly go a long
> way in helping at least me get deeper into lua use! :-P
> 
> > There are social issues:  traditionally we are all very _polite_ in
> > this community, and one of the rules is: don't bash a guy's package.
> > But quality control requires judgement, so that someone new can come
> > in and find the recommended solution.   So if the culture could shift
> > a little bit - constructive criticism is not personal or disrespectful
> > - then this can really be useful.
> >
> > steve d.
> >
> 
> Proper constructive criticism is always good, though I think some sort
> of rating/voting system helps with this maybe? Rather than bashing
> someone's work, you can just promote someone else's.

I like this. The codeproject [1] rating system allows to rate (1 to 5 stars) and provide a comment as to why that rating was given, something like that would be very useful.

> 
> There are other metrics too such as download count which can help (a
> little) in judging the usefulness/popularity of a package.
> 
> --
> :wq!

[1] http://www.codeproject.com/