Re: Why isn't Lua more widely used?

[Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@...>]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:44:16 +0100
sergei karhof <karhof21@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM, startx <startx@plentyfact.org>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:47:56 +0100
> > sergei karhof <karhof21@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> instance? Could not Lua be used in browsers and do as much a good
> >> job as Javascript?
> 
> > probably it could , but there is no browser which supports client
> > side lua
> 
> So, another way of asking the question would be, why is there no
> browser which supports client side lua?
> 

there is luakit.
http://luakit.org/projects/luakit/

although you guys are probably talking about using lua to modify the current page/DOM;
in luakit lua is used for configuration and behavior of the browser, maybe it's also possible to modify the DOM directly from lua but i'm not sure.