Re: LUA Vs Javascript

[Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>]

Stephen Kellett wrote:
> Some of you will thing this is a minor issue. If you want Lua to be 
> mainstream, things like this need to be addressed.

Since when has "mainstream" been the measure of success for Lua?

I see this on the Ruby mailing list a lot: somebody comes along and 
pronounces that unless Ruby jumps over *this* bar it'll never succeed, 
for whatever their definition of "success" is. Then Ruby jumps over that 
bar, so next week they proclaim yet another bar. Yet Ruby has gone from 
obscurity to fame in the 6 or 7 years I've been using it without ever 
once purposefully jumping over any bars except the ones that Matz raises.

Lua is already a success - on it's own terms, not yours.