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I liked lua when I used it. It didn't seem to get much love at the time, though I think it's more popular. It's got a few neat things and it's good for embeddin
by grawprog 9y ago
I liked lua when I used it. It didn't seem to get much love at the time, though I think it's more popular. It's got a few neat things and it's good for embedding. And I think maybe D doesn't get the appreciation it deserves but there's a bunch of reasons for that.
- etiene 9y ago+1 to Lua, it is my favorite interpreted language. I like that the design is extremely clean and consistent, not to mention it is way faster than the alternatives.
- ShannonAlther 9y agoThe luaJIT compiler[0] is stupendously good. Bob Nystrom, one of the developers for Dart, once said "Mike Pall [the developer] is a robot from the future"[1]. [0] http://luajit.org/luajit.html http://luajit.org/luajit.html [1] http://wren.io/performance.html http://wren.io/performance.html
- 52-6F-62 9y agoI kind of wish D would pick up. It's very familiar and clean, and a few things are remarkably easy and fun to do. Though reading through issues and threads about it, and maybe high performance programmers using it have more than a few things to say about the state of the GC. I'm not sure if that's changed or not. I've only dabbled yet. I'd like to see a community grow around it. It, or something like it, seems to me like the path a modern, low-level language should be going. It's not there yet, but in terms of the feature-set, optional safety, syntax, typing, etc, it's an attractive space.