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I would expand that to say that lua has a standard library and framework problem. You can link any old C library but there's little uniformity in how everything
by moe 17y ago
I would expand that to say that lua has a standard library and framework problem. You can link any old C library but there's little uniformity in how everything fits together and rather few task-oriented packages/frameworks exist.
I like lua and am using it for some tasks where I'd have used C in the past. But for many things where ruby/python have strong, pluggable libraries (e.g. everything web-related) there is simply no equivalent in lua-land.
Kepler project is nowhere near a django or rails.
- silentbicycle 17y agoLua's historical niche has been as an extension language for C and C++ projects, not web development. It has the necessary infrastructure at the language level, though. FWIW, I'm working on a lightweight, event-driven webserver and general server framework (like twisted or tornado). It will be released under a BSD-style license at the same time as my distributed filesystem (the project driving its development).