Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 06:27, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, unlike Dibyendu and Paige, writing and supporting
> dialects of Lua is not my hobby. (Btw Dibyendu, if you need a name for
> this stripped-down Lua of yours, how about Deimos? For over 100 years,
> it was the smallest known moon in the universe.)
>

Nice name. I think there is a smaller language / implementation
lurking inside Lua that might be more efficient and optimizable. The
problem as always is of compatibility - and the fact that it is very
very hard to establish a new language. It requires full time attention
and many years of effort. The amount of time I am able to give to Ravi
for example, is insufficient to do this. And the difficulty then of
popularizing it makes it hard to be motivated.

Regards
Dibyendu