Re: A rant about Lua

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

PhiLho wrote:
> Benjamin Tolputt wrote:
> > On the whole, this mailing list is quite amenable to discussion on the
> > language. Alot of it is ignored thereafter, but comments & criticism
> > seem well received... just rarely acted upon. This is part of the whole
> > "Lua development is closed to outsiders" mentality that both allows for
> > quicker/cleaner release iterations and inhibits outsider contribution :)
>
> Personally, I feel fine with this development way. I perceive Lua as 
> being carefully designed, with changes that don't hesitate to break 
> previous releases (on major versions) - since Lua is (often) embedded, 
> if you don't like changes, stick with the version you have - but are 
> well thought, discussed here, amended along some suggestions, etc. And 
> compatibility among minor versions is carefully maintained.

Me too.

And name me one other major language that runs on a workstation class
machine and also on a little ARM7 with 256K of FLASH and 64K of RAM
like the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT :-)

OK, you can't solve the same class of problems, but the point is
that the language runs with _unmodified_ source code on both devices.

Ralph