Re: Interest in Lua Web Plug-in?

["Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@...>]

If it's something you feel strongly about, I would say go for it.  I
would definitely be interested in Lua web stuff.  Just look at what
has happened to ruby.  A group of people were dedicated to a project
and had some really good ideas and they attracted alot of interest.

wes

On 3/1/07, therandthem <therandthem@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Part of the reason is the sad benchmarks coming from
> the new Tamarin Javascript implementation.  Sure, they
> are faster than Rhino (Javascript in Java) or
> Spidermonkey (used by Firefox), but it is so slow
> compared to Lua and LuaJIT.  Tamarin is the future of
> Flash and Firefox.  It is the next 10 years.
>
> It is not so much out of love for Lua, but a desire to
> take a shortcut to where we really ought to be.  Lua
> is the fastest dynamically typed language
> implementation.  Why not use it?  Why fool around with
> slower?
>
> I understand your feelings about these types of
> projects.  I don't think this has to be too
> complicated though.  Lua + media libraries + a little
> sandboxing.  Have you seen the HTML Canvas API?
> That's as far as I think we would go in interfacing
> with these media libraries.  Nothing too high level.
>
> Thanks,
>
> McKinley
>
> --- Vijay Aswadhati <wyseman@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> > I understand doing things for the love of Lua; it
> > still begs the question why?
>
>
>
>
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