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> if there was a compiler/interpreter for another language that was close to being as good as V8 Like LuaJIT that has been around longer than V8?
by pull_my_finger 4y ago
> if there was a compiler/interpreter for another language that was close to being as good as V8
Like LuaJIT that has been around longer than V8?
- LunaSea 4y agoLuaJIT is fast however it misses Node.js's (or Python's) standard library and package ecosystem.
- pull_my_finger 4y agoSo then you pull in LuaFileSystem or LuaSocket or whatever you need. I never understood this as a huge limitation. There are plenty of very mature cross platform libraries for anything I'd grab out of node's standard libs. There's even libUV bindings (luv) which would pretty much feature match nodejs completely. Add to that LuaJITs FFI you get all of C's ecosystem as well. Batteries are helpful, but it's not like Lua is completely devoid of helpful libraries.
- spencerchubb 4y agoIt would be interesting to see a Deno competitor run on Lua!