Re: Does Lua need a JIT?

Please note PHP is also successful in web development. And NodeJS is v8

which is JIT. So, to sum up, none of that really means anything. I was mostly

only countering your argument that Lua should stay and be niche / scripting

small stuff. That part is something I strongly disagree. People will look for tools

they feel comfortable with when no criteria is critical, and they will look for

performance when that is critical for their application.

2017-02-21 21:19 GMT+00:00 Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>:

On 21 February 2017 at 21:16, Etiene Dalcol <dalcol@etiene.net> wrote:
> Having worked a lot with web development, where dynamic languages
> are heavily used to build large applications, I can't see why Lua could
> not be star in that field as well along with python or ruby, for example.
>

Sure, but is a JIT needed for this? Neither Python or Ruby have JIT
technology and Ruby is certainly successful in the web development
field.

Regards
Dibyendu

Etiene Dalcol

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