Re: Why Lua is not more popular

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:18:06 +0200
"Pierre Chapuis" <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:

> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Ousmane Roland Yonaba
> > <roland.yonaba at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Thijs Schreijer
> >> <thijs at thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> That being said, I think something like Ruby Toolbox in
> >>>> Lua would help: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/
> >>>>
> >>>> That website basically lists projects by use case and
> >>>> help you find out which ones are the most popular,
> >>>> up to date and so on.
> >>>>
> >>>> I may very well create something inspired by that
> >>>> concept for Lua someday...
> >>>
> >>> Well steal their categories list and apply it on LuaRocks...
> >>>
> >>> +1 to that
> >>
> >> Oh, well, I do second that aswell.
> >
> > And I third that as well. :)
> 
> OK, enough people have told me that they are interested.
> This is now officially a side project of mine now :)

You very well may have taken the one action necessary to *make* Lua
popular with the wider world, as opposed to the "bounce between C and
interpreter" world. The way I see it, Lua is the best *language*
around, and armed with something like you will be doing, it will also
be a good *universe* from which to confidently code a project from
start to finish.

What you are doing will also cut down on all the competing projects,
because often people will scratch their itch with existing code rather
than writing yet another one. As it stands now, they might not know
about the other one, or without feedback from others, might not trust
what's already out there.

You do good work.

Thanks,

SteveT

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