Re: Why I leave Lua (Was: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available)

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Jul 9, 2014, at 5:44 AM, David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It is a hard decision to take, I've been following Lua for two years and used it intensively in several projects including irccd [1] and Lua-SDL [2]. There were already things that I didn't like much in Lua but I could deal with it but some are much more annoying for me.
> 
> 
> Nevertheless, it was very fun to use Lua in my IRC bot, I really loved it because it has simplified a lot the creation of plugins. I much enjoyed this but now I think I'll just leave the land of scripting languages at all, at the beginning I was thinking of switching to V8 but I think I'll just stick with plain C++. However, I will still maintain irccd and Lua-SDL2 which will be my last Lua powered projects.
> 
> Roberto, Luiz thanks very much for your work, Lua is a great language, but probably not for me.
> 
> I'll still keep my PiL 3 as an historical use.
> 
> On a very sad day, regards,
> David.
> 

Sorry to see you go. While I agree somewhat with a few of the issues raised (modules in particular), I feel that the strengths of Lua far outweigh the weaknesses. And as others have noted, what are the alternatives that are so much better?

—Tim