Re: Python people strive to embrace LuaJIT

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@...>]

On 07/25/2010 12:18 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Alexander Gladysh<agladysh@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > But Lua discrimination strikes again:
> > >
> > >     <...>Lua code is harder to write than Python code as the language
> > > lacks most of the batteries that Python includes. Writing large
> > > programs in Lua is rather futile<...>
> >
> > Well, it's partly true: you need to find your own batteries to do
> > anything the standard libraries can't. But Lua as a language is
> > definitely not "harder" to write!
>
> And writing large programs in Lua is certainly not "futile", as
> proved by many large programs written in Lua.

In the Python community,

  "Writing large programs in <X-which-is-not-Python> is rather futile"

is a fairly common idiom ;)

Best wishes,
Taco