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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Luvit - Lua + UV + Jit = NodeJS re-implemented in Lua
- From: Fabien <fleutot+lua@...>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:03:09 +0100
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
is there anything about lua that makes it more appropriate to build this kind of technology vs _javascript_?
Coroutines. Look at any non-trivial node.js program, it's an awful mess of nested callbacks; very hard to read, impossible to maintain. Coroutines fix that, and that's a killer feature by itself.
Performance questions might also weight in favor Lua, but that's really secondary, compared to making user code maintainable.
