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Lua attracts a lot of devs with a pretty low-key, humble attitude. If you go to a Ruby mailing list and ask people "should I use Ruby for x?" the answer will mo

by compay 17y ago

Lua attracts a lot of devs with a pretty low-key, humble attitude. If you go to a Ruby mailing list and ask people "should I use Ruby for x?" the answer will mostly be a resounding "yes." On the Lua list, people will often tell you "that depends," will advocate for lots of other languages, or even tell you "no, I don't think so." I think that's in part because of Lua's history as an embedded/glue language: many programmers who work with Lua don't use it as their primary language, and so they don't have the same urge to hard-core advocacy and evangelism that many other languages' users have.

jamesbritt 17y ago
'If you go to a Ruby mailing list and ask people "should I use Ruby for x?" the answer will mostly be a resounding "yes."' Really? I don't think so. If it's for Web or desktop stuff, sure. For other things, there are a lot of "it depends". Seriously, outside the heavy gravity of Planet Rails, Ruby devs are pretty open about what you can reasonably do with Ruby.
- compay 17y ago
  You're right, I chose a lousy example. Much of my experience with Ruby revolves around Rails, so perhaps that colors my perspective a bit more than I sometimes realize.
orin 17y ago
"If you go to a Ruby mailing list and ask people "should I use Ruby for x?" the answer will mostly be a resounding "yes."" I went. That's not what I found. For example: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/c8074f25c46945da/9745894c22e8ec67 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/... In fact, while we're on the subject, here's an example of recommendations and praise of Lua on comp.lang.ruby (note: google groups displays it a bit out of order): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/tree/browse_frm/thread/21c9595b01fb2331/4ab78517cc82df9a?rnum=1&_done=/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/21c9595b01fb2331/4ab78517cc82df9a%3Ftvc%3D1%26#doc_b733f79af2dd87ae http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/tree/browse_fr...

by compay 17y ago

jamesbritt 17y ago

'If you go to a Ruby mailing list and ask people "should I use Ruby for x?" the answer will mostly be a resounding "yes."' Really? I don't think so. If it's for Web or desktop stuff, sure. For other things, there are a lot of "it depends". Seriously, outside the heavy gravity of Planet Rails, Ruby devs are pretty open about what you can reasonably do with Ruby.

compay 17y ago
You're right, I chose a lousy example. Much of my experience with Ruby revolves around Rails, so perhaps that colors my perspective a bit more than I sometimes realize.

orin 17y ago

"If you go to a Ruby mailing list and ask people "should I use Ruby for x?" the answer will mostly be a resounding "yes."" I went. That's not what I found. For example: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/c8074f25c46945da/9745894c22e8ec67 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/... In fact, while we're on the subject, here's an example of recommendations and praise of Lua on comp.lang.ruby (note: google groups displays it a bit out of order): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/tree/browse_frm/thread/21c9595b01fb2331/4ab78517cc82df9a?rnum=1&_done=/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/21c9595b01fb2331/4ab78517cc82df9a%3Ftvc%3D1%26#doc_b733f79af2dd87ae http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/tree/browse_fr...