Re: [OT] Lua community and Go language

[Robert Virding <robert.virding@...>]

Coming from the Erlang world another bad decision is basing everything on shared memory between goroutines. This really open up the possibilities of synchronisation bugs.

For those interested in combining Lua with concurrency/parallelism is Luerl. It is a Lua implementation in Erlang which makes it easy to run many concurrent Lua "machines".

Robert

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Barnes" <craigbarnes85@gmail.com>
> To: "Lua mailing list" <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 August, 2013 4:54:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [OT] Lua community and Go language
> 
> On 6 August 2013 15:23, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Nasty...  Go is like a bundle of bad decisions all nicely packaged
> > for
> > convenient use. ><
> >
> > -miles
> 
> Semicolon insertion is the only obviously ugly thing I've found with
> Go so far. What else is there?
> 
> Other than a couple of small warts, I find it a refreshing
> improvement
> over C, although obviously not a replacement.
> 
>