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I don't understand the hype behind lua. I tried scripting vlc plugin and its very painful. No so easy to understand.
by thorwawayrus53 5y ago
I don't understand the hype behind lua. I tried scripting vlc plugin and its very painful. No so easy to understand.
- rscho 5y agoI think the hype is mostly excellent C integration. Night and day compared to Python.
- kragen 5y agoWhat are you comparing it to?
- thorwawayrus53 5y agoPython, JavaScript.
- kragen 5y agoLua's a little more opaque than Python or JS, a little more flexible, a little more bug-prone, and a lot simpler. But those aren't the reasons VLC and Wireshark and WoW use Lua instead of Python or JS; they use it because it's enormously less costly to embed. Imagine you decide to switch from Lua to Python for your game. Now you have: - 3600 kilobytes of bloat instead of 110; - a huge and bug-prone ABI to deal with to make sure Python doesn't inject memory leaks; - Python assholes publicly shaming you for using an unfashionable version of Python.