Re: TechRepublic article about languages to avoid in 2018

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2018-03-07 06:35 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > 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

Slightly off-topic but thank you <3 (for saying LuaJIT is a fork of Lua)

(Can we also say "LuaJIT is not Lua"?)

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