Re: Is "scripting" truly Lua's future?

[Matt Campbell <mattcampbell@...>]

The responses so far have been interesting.  The question that came to 
my mind when I saw Roberto's answer to the "future of Lua" question in 
Computerworld is this:  If I'm designing a new application, should I 
write the application core in C and then use Lua for scripting on top of 
that, or should I write the application in Lua, using C extension 
modules only where needed?  Roberto's answer on the future of Lua, as 
well as his answer to the question about sysadmin tools, seemed to 
indicate that the former is correct.  But if that's so, where do I draw 
the line between C and Lua?  Coming from Python, I'm quite used to 
developing primarily in a dynamic language.  This approach is dominant 
in the Python community; for example, see the rant "Extending Vs. 
Embedding" by a well-known Python programmer:

http://twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/rant/extendit.html

So I naturally bring this approach with me to Lua.  Roberto's statements 
in Computerworld made me think it was wrong to use Lua like this, but 
now I understand that he was only saying that the most natural and 
popular use of Lua is for embedded scripting.

Matt