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Hi moonchild, - The license will evolve to a full open source project once a certain degree of maturity will be reached. - Yes PUC Lua because it's the refere

by _samt_ 5y ago

Hi moonchild, - The license will evolve to a full open source project once a certain degree of maturity will be reached. - Yes PUC Lua because it's the reference. I won't go to the debate LuaJIT vs PUC Lua. Maybe a LuaJIT version could be released too in the future. - Yes Lua has all the tools to do OOP, but it's not available out of the box for newcomers. That permits to inherit and extend the LuaRT provided Objects (File, Directory, Socket...) - Yes Windows specific: Lua support on this platform is very poor and depends a lot on binary modules that must be compiled by hand, which can be a true nightmare on Windows for newcomers. Regards,

canadianfella 5y ago
> The license will evolve to a full open source project once a certain degree of maturity will be reached. Why?
moonchild 5y ago
> PUC Lua because it's the reference. I won't go to the debate LuaJIT vs PUC Lua. Maybe a LuaJIT version could be released too in the future Don't mean to debate, and I certainly wasn't criticizing the choice. I just thought it was unusual, since luajit makes interop with native code a much stronger focus than puc lua.
- _samt_ 5y ago
  LuaRT main goal is to facilitate access to the Windows operating system functionalities without the need for C interoperability (no need for binary modules or FFI layers), hence the choice for PUC Lua :)