Re: TIOBE: Lua in the Top 20

["Sherry Zhang" <yuleopen@...>]

On 7/12/07, jason-lua@creativetrax.com <jason-lua@creativetrax.com> wrote:
> Spencer Schumann wrote:
> > The detailed chart for Lua (http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Lua.html)
> > shows a huge jump in popularity in the last few months.  Does anyone
> > have a theory as to what caused this dramatic rise?
>
> I became re-interested in Lua since Adobe Lightroom was released in late
> February, 2007.  The rumors of an SDK (requiring lua skills) after the
> 1.1 release prompted my subscription to this list (yes, 1.1 has been
> released, but no, the SDK hasn't been released yet).
>
> Jason

I became interested in lua when I heard about the LuaTeX project.
It is great fun to embed a functional/dynamic programming language into TeX.
but I wonder whether Lua can do the job because it lacks full support
for Unicode strings, and it is too slow to use Lua to handle the
Opentype/Truetype font information, especially CJK fonts.