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> Lua is far superior I disagree with this assessment.

• VWWHFSfQ 6y ago
  LuaJIT is nearly 3x faster than V8 JavaScript the last time I checked. Just anecodal DDG search [0]. Maybe V8 has gotten faster since the last time I checked. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=is+luajit+faster+than+v8+javascript%3F https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=is+luajit+faster+than+v8+ja...
  • rosywoozlechan 6y ago
    Lua also has a smaller footprint I think.
    • hombre_fatal 6y ago
      It has a worse standard library than Javascript. And its static typing solutions don't compare to Typescript.
      • wyozi 6y ago
        Funnily enough the state of art in typed lua is typescript: https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua
  • afiori 6y ago
    I think a big part of the point is to build a js runtime for existing js code and libraries. Probably it will not replace node soon, but it is a possible outcome. Also didn't luajit had the problem that it would never move to more recent version of lua? I remember that some years ago there was some talking about this.