Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?

["Pierre Chapuis" <catwell@...>]

>> On 7 March 2013 21:31, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>> Time spent making language X work like language Y is not productive,
>> just use language Y and be done with it.
>
> The same argument is valid for mruby, is it not? Why are you using a
> stripped down version of Ruby when you are just trying to reimplement
> Lua?  :)

This. You can work around most of the missing features of Ruby in Lua.
It is way harder to work around the missing features of Lua in Ruby when
those include size, portability and performance.

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Pierre Chapuis