Re: Running Lua from within a Window Program

[Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@...>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:07 AM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:

> Lua has an io library (which usually is bundled with the Lua API and thus linked to the same runtime), and some popular third-party modules (e.g. luaposix and luafilesystem) can work with Lua file handles.

Technically, it is those libraries, not Lua, which are responsible for this. Practically, the difference is slim. I think there is enough rationale in this thread to conclude that mixing runtimes is a very bad idea.

Cheers,

V.