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Lua doesn’t really solve anything fundamental. It’s popular because it’s small and easy to embed. But embeddable interpreters, while fun pet projects, they’re r
by pipeline_peak 4y ago
Lua doesn’t really solve anything fundamental. It’s popular because it’s small and easy to embed. But embeddable interpreters, while fun pet projects, they’re redundant and trivial.
Jonathan Blow has a great explanation of this https://youtu.be/y2Wmz15aXk0 https://youtu.be/y2Wmz15aXk0
Write reusable libraries first, let people embed them into whatever scripting language/GUI app they want.
Scripting languages, Linux distros, it’s all Pokémon cards.