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I like seeing more and more software extensible by Lua, which is a very decent language. My very favorite is LuaTeX (luatex.org), where you can access all ugly
by patrickg 16y ago
I like seeing more and more software extensible by Lua, which is a very decent language. My very favorite is LuaTeX (luatex.org), where you can access all ugly TeX internals from Lua and even create a complete typesetting system without using the rather complicated TeX language, which is based on macro expansion. I am not so sure if I'd use Lua Bash, for bash has always been "good enough" for me.
- chalst 16y agoOh, hi Patrick. The reason Rene Rebe wrote luabash initially was to speed up certain shell scripts without drastic rewriting of existing code, efficiency being the main justification for dynamic loadables (which came from ksh) in the first place. The code here is simple, and I enjoyed reading it: it lit a few lights for me about how to use Bash loadables.