Re: A guide to building Lua modules

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:

>   I have to ask:  What attracted you to Lua?  Why not use Ruby, which has a
> history of allowing much that is mystical, implicit and convenient?

I was attracted to Lua by its speed initially, I used to be one of
those crazies who would periodically review the Computer Benchmarks
Game and scout out the languages that had the edge after
C/C++/Ada/Java.

The argument is, Lua can't gain every feature if it costs us speed --
I recognize that.  The issues I usually hate Lua for are things like
locals being allocated for at compile-time and varargs not being
easier to store/handle and Lua not being oriented for preemptive
threading or message-passing without serializing objects.

>   And, what do you mean by "Lua's growth?"

We're just now getting some minimal handling on utf8. :\