Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Op Sa., 8 Sep. 2018 om 14:33 het Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile@majumdar.org.uk> geskryf:
>
> 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.

Actually Lua is so minimalistic, the question is always what one could
add rather than what could one remove, and the answer in both cases
can usually be implemented by loading a package.