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My favorite thing about Lua is that it trivially builds anywhere with a C compiler. Lots of other languages that bill themselves as "embeddable" are a real pain
by BaculumMeumEst 2y ago
My favorite thing about Lua is that it trivially builds anywhere with a C compiler. Lots of other languages that bill themselves as "embeddable" are a real pain in the ass to build on weird platforms.
- thement 2y agoI even managed to get Lua built on z/OS mainframe! The productivity gains were *amazing* (compared to REXX).
- ctenb 2y agoCan you quantify this and link to the implementation?
- ufo 2y agoFun example: there's a project (Lunatik) that embeds Lua inside the Linux kernel, where no userspace C APIs are available. You'd expect that would require extensive patching but they mostly just had to tweak the makefile and a configuration header file.