Re: Stackoverflow 2018 survey

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

On 2018-03-14 07:18 PM, Erik Hougaard wrote:
> 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.

get lit and make luv
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