Re: LUA Vs Javascript

[Mel Wilson <mwilson@...>]

Eric Tetz wrote:
> Stephen Kellette wrote:
> > Much as I like Lua, the purist/stripped down nature of it means that I think
> > it will be forever a specialist niche language
>
> That's the *point* of Lua.
>
> It's designed to be an extension language, and one of it's stated goal
> is to "be small, and have a small implementation.  Otherwise, the cost
> of adding the library to an application may be too high".  Ruby,
> Python, Perl, Javascript, etc. don't have that constraint.

My own use for Lua is to let people write plug-ins to run in the 
soft-real-time core of a computerized musical instrument.  If I find 
that Lua is delaying processing my events while it cobbles up names 
for its own data structures -- names that no-one should ever care 
about -- I will become depressed.

	Mel.