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I have actually tried that and you're right. The whole experience made me consider going back to electrical engineering when I realised that the status quo hadn

by setq 9y ago

I have actually tried that and you're right. The whole experience made me consider going back to electrical engineering when I realised that the status quo hadn't improved in 20 years :)

walterbell 9y ago
Have you looked at Lua+C and LuaJIT+nginx (CloudFlare, OpenResty)? Work is underway to compile a subset of Perl6 to LuaJIT+nginx.
- setq 9y ago
  I can't get over the 1 based indexes in Lua, unless that has changed in recent years.
  - walterbell 9y ago
    Still there :) The trade-off is rapid development (interpreted, GC), fast execution (JIT faster than Javascript) and easy interfacing to C libraries.
    - setq 9y ago
      I shall have a try next week and see if I can cope with it :)