Re: [OT] Lua community and Go language

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Sven Olsen <sven2718@gmail.com> wrote:

At first glance, my impression is that Go would be an awkward partner for Lua -- goroutines like to be lightweight; while the main route for maintaining thread safety in lua is to have a unique state for each thread.

It isn't obvious.  I've done a convenient reflection-based way to use Lua from Go (luar) and I'm not sure how to go further and make a happy marriage between coroutines and goroutines.  To be safe, one does need unique Lua states, and then the reasonable thing would be to only share data using channels - not a million miles from LuaLanes.

As for the language, I picked up the basics quickly and tend to use it for binary data processing where I would have earlier used C.