Re: Lua OS

[sergei karhof <karhof21@...>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:

> To me, the really interesting idea isn't "what if we wrote a whole OS
> in Lua", but "what if we took the nice scriptablility that Lua offers,
> and extended it to an entire OS". Any scripting language could
> probably do the job; I just feel Lua is one of the best. :-)

Precisely. You hit the nail on the head.

> Already, I use Lua to script my text editor (TextAdept) and window
> manager (Awesome) to make them work just how I like. It's amazingly
> powerful being able to define the exact behaviours I want without
> having to hack and recompile messy C code[1]. It's been a great
> experience and I find myself wishing I could script all my other
> applications. Now imagine everything were already written in Lua and
> easily extensible and scriptable... some amazing things you could do.
> There's also lots of potential in having apps interact with eachother
> via sockets.

That CAN come true, if we do push the Lua OS idea forward. It's
nothing impossible or too difficult.