Re: Stackoverflow 2018 survey

[Erik Hougaard <erik@...>]

On 14-Mar-18 12:26 PM, Charles Heywood wrote:
> It's interesting to see that Lua reached almost 70% in "dreaded" - 
> that many people who used it didn't want to go back to using it? 
> Wonder what the cause could be. My guess is probably bad environments 
> that use Lua, and the environment's what they didn't like, but Lua 
> takes the blame.
In 2018 I think the lack of a proper builtin "blessed" packaging system 
really hurts Lua. People just want to npm, nuget, pip or gem it. Things 
than can be done in 10 seconds in Javascript takes hours with Lua.

I believe that a builtin "blessed" packaging system is the most 
important piece to secure Lua's existence and relevance in the future.

/erik

p.s. This is not a rant against LuaRocks, it rocks :)  - But it's not 
part of Lua.