Positioning a new lua distribution

[Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@...>]

Alex Bilyk asked:
> I guess the bottom line question is this. Is there anything I can't
> do in Perl or Python today that I would be able to do with 
> LuaCheia eventually? 

This is a good point.  Existing scripting languages including Perl, Python and Ruby are pretty good already which leaves less room for a newcomer.  

The untapped hole in the "market" which lua is going after is embedded languages but are there other holes too that LuaCheia or similar lua distribution might fill?  

I have one idea. Rather than positioning Lua, LuaCheia or similar project against the above cited scripting languages, it should be positioned against awk.   Awk is small, elegant, widely used and easy to carry around (its just one executable file).  It is aimed at text processing.  At the same time awk is showing its age.

Lua is even more powerful and elegant.  A Lua distribution which had a few built-in libraries which are aimed at text processing (e.g. HTML, XML) and possibly related areas (e.g. internet) might be attractive to those who use awk but are looking for something very easy to learn and use yet more powerful than awk.  



 

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