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I find it interesting that people say Lua is a "simple" language, as if that's a flaw. Also, simple in which respect? To optimise? To parse? Note that this is
by woodson 16y ago
I find it interesting that people say Lua is a "simple" language, as if that's a flaw. Also, simple in which respect? To optimise? To parse?
Note that this is no fanboyism. It's just that these performance claims are mostly phony anyways. How much % of general python code is in RPython?
It's good to see this kind of progress, for both python and lua, as it opens up room for dynamic languages in new areas and helps to change the mindset of some people. However, this picking on each other is more than expendable IMHO..
- Raphael_Amiard 16y agoI don't think anybody is picking on each others. The two projects are way too different to be compared IMHO. Also being simple isn't a flaw in my mind. Lua is quite a beautiful language. And theoretically much more closer to my likings than python. However, for practical programming, i prefer python, just because it's a 'good enough', very comfortable to work with language that has a ton of useful and well done libraries. This isn't the case of lua, probably because it's purpose isn't to be used as a general language, but to be a real scripting language to be embedded in bigger applications.