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What's a "real world language"?

• jessegreathouse 11y ago
  A language that gets widespread usage in projects other than academic.
  • sspiff 11y ago
    Another definition I could see working: a language that is used in projects bigger/more complicated that its own compiler or standard library.
    • Narann 11y ago
      Hahaha! You got me!
  • mrdrozdov 11y ago
    What's an example of a "not real language" then? I'm feeling a little hard pressed to find an academic language that is not used in industry. I always thought of Lua as academic because I associated it with Torch, but Facebook and Google are both heavy users of Torch, besides Lua has been heavily used in gaming as an embedded scripting language outside of machine learning applications.
    • llull 11y ago
      Idris. Really interesting language exploring dependent types for practical programming, but not yet production ready.
    • cyphar 11y ago
      Neovim is also working on replacing VimL with Lua (by translating VimL to Lua). I think that'll be pretty cool (you will be able to match the emacs people on having all of your configuration in a full programming language).
  • DonHopkins 11y ago
    Lua is widely used and well respected in the game industry (WOW for example [1]), for its efficiency and embeddability. [1] http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Lua http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Lua