Re: CGILua vis-a-vis Javascript

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez
> <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  * ljs (http://code.matthewwild.co.uk/ljs)
>>>  * emscripten (http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/)
>>>  * jill (http://code.google.com/p/jillcode/), requires Java
>>>  * lua.js (https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js)
>>>  * brozula (https://github.com/creationix/brozula)
>>>  * lua-alchemy (http://code.google.com/p/lua-alchemy), requires Flash
>>
>> isn't there any based on NaCl? or  a silverlight one?
>
> Why bother? If your intent is broad deployment, you probably want to
> use a technology that everyone already has installed (JS primarily,
> Flash to a lesser extent, Java even less nowadays). If you don't care
> about broad deployment, then why are you even worried about trying to
> run in a web browser?

Maybe because you need to code something that is NaCL- or
Silverlight-based (say, because you work at Google or MS :-) ), and
you want to use Lua?

If anyone knows NaCL or Silverlight bridges, please tell, I'll add
them to my list :-)

Alexander.