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I didn't have. But how do you parse it without Lua? Is a parser library available for mainstream languages?

• krapp 8y ago
  > But how do you parse it without Lua? You wouldn't, but the language is lightweight enough (according to Wikipedia, the interpreter is ~180kb compiled) that including it as a dependency probably won't matter. It's less overhead than an interpreter for JSON or YAML at least. >Is a parser library available for mainstream languages? It's used commonly in game development so yes for C and C++, and the site[0] mentions "Java, C#, Smalltalk, Fortran, Ada, Erlang, and even in other scripting languages, such as Perl and Ruby" as well. [0]https://www.lua.org/about.html https://www.lua.org/about.html
  • ngrilly 8y ago
    I know Lua and I use it sometimes (for example in Redis). But I don't want to include a full Lua interpreter in my program just to parse a configuration file. It's overkill in my opinion :-)
    • krapp 8y ago
      Fair enough, but it still seems like the language you're looking for, feature-wise.