Re: From Lua to Python?

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

> Am 01.07.2017 um 21:43 schrieb Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>:
> 
> Hi Jay,
> 
> On 1 July 2017 at 20:17, Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> wrote:
>> If only Lua had a (reasonable) subset of the Python libraries.
>> 
>> There’s a project nobody’s done: Clone the Python library designs in Lua.
> 
> This was my plan originally - i.e. I had planned on creating a whole
> bunch of libraries (mostly related to maths & statistics). But sadly
> this is a huge task and life is too short.

In my opinion you are making a huge mistake:  namely choosing your tools by popularity/user count rather by fitness for the task.

If that was a wise thing to do, we would probably all code in visual basic for applications… ;)