While
discussing at the docker official images project the addition of lua images, which would be very helpful for large scale projects (coff coff lapis) and library testing,
Tianon Gravi cooked up some very interesting questions regarding the Lua project development continuinity.
I think this was discussed to some degree in the past but I would like to shed some more light to the issue. I know that, even if Roberto is the main core developer and there are three at the moment, students, ex-students and others help improve the language by spoting problems in the documentation, making suggestions to the implementation and providing patches.
One thing that I would like to know more is about is if there are plans for the language growth and legacy. Big companies usually have to prepare people to take over positions when they become vacant by any reason (company needs more people for that task or the person fall sick or retired).
Are there plans for Lua to have more core developers or a guidance for new core developers? Like, "if you plan to become a developer of the language, this should be your mindset and compromises".
I'm fully aware this is not a trivial question nor has a trivial answer, but do believe it should be discussed, given other languages usually more people involved (which is not necessarely better) and that might affect the perception of new developers.
Thanks for reading this long message.
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