Re: Standard for Lua

[Richard Warburton <richard@...>]

> Maur??cio wrote:
> > > Do you guys think it would be possible
> > > to have something like an ECMALua (like
> > > ECMAScript)? Maybe with an available
> > > standard it would be easier to have Lua
> > > in many applications. (My dream is to
> > > be able to use Lua instead of Javascript
> > > in web pages. Maybe "ECMALua" would be
> > > a step in that direction.)
> >     
> My 2 cents... Lua is a little corner of unspoilt paradise. I hate 
> to think what would happen if everyone is invited to the party. 
>  :-)  There is no need to attempt world domination by way of 
> pandering to 1001 standards-setting bodies. I'd prefer recognition 
> of the language by technical merit.
>
> Lua is already in a whole lot of applications. But Lua cannot win 
> all the time, because many parties will defend their own choice of 
> scripting language religiously. Try swaying the mind of a Python 
> evangelist...  :-)  Whatever, any language is good as long as it 
> gets the job gets done.
>
> One client-side scripting language for HTML is quite enough for 
> me. Do we really need another one?
I would much prefer to code Lua instead of Javascript.  It would make my 
day if Fx supported Lua.

I already prefer coding it instead of PHP and Python.  I think Lua has 
the potential to be one those general languages that just happens to 
beat those specialised languages at their own games.  Kepler vs PHP 
etc.  Certainly help devels if everything is in the same language 
(Clientside scripting, serverside scripting, scripts run from cron, 
small apps etc.).  What's the point of new languages if they don't 
swallow up any of the older ones?