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Out of curiosity, how come Redis uses Lua instead of TCL? They're both neat, small, fast little languages, and they're both based around a powerful primitive u
by zeveb 9y ago
Out of curiosity, how come Redis uses Lua instead of TCL?
They're both neat, small, fast little languages, and they're both based around a powerful primitive used everywhere (tables in Lua, strings in TCL). I think TCL is a bit more elegant, while Lua is a bit more familiar.
- antirez 9y agoTo maximize familiarity indeed. Lua is more algol like. Moreover while the Tcl implementation is small is nowhere near the ANSI C target of Lua that compiles even into a toaster.