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- Subject: Re: Portability of Lua
- From: Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:16:36 +0100
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:01:56PM +1200, Paul Baker wrote:
> These facts combine to mean that, quite possibly, Lua is the most
> portable language in existence. Do people agree with this statement?
> If not, which other languages approach Lua in terms of portability?
It can't be more portable than the language it's implemented in.
Additionally, there are places you can use C where using Lua would be
very difficult, such as memory-starved microcontrollers or anything
requiring real-time.
Also, I'm not sure how well Lua reacts when char is not 8 bits.
B.
