Re: TechRepublic article about languages to avoid in 2018

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> On 7 March 2018 at 15:23, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
> > Not only that, people write code that assumes it runs on LuaJIT and
> > uses the FFI anyway...
> 
> hey, the FFI is the nicest thing of LuaJIT!  in fact, it happens to me
> a lot that i start a project in a somewhat modern Lua, and then
> appears something that would some C... at that point I have to
> consider: is this a "serious thing, where i do care about the users?"
> then I use the Lua C API.  if it's a quick and dirty thing, then i
> switch to LuaJIT and use the FFI.  (no, i don't consider luaffi)

luaffi is not a serious option, and cannot be; the whole philosophy of
FFI demands a compiler. FFI is what made LuaJIT definitively a fork of
Lua.

-- Roberto