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Which languages do you think are both better and have better cross platform support?

• boffinAudio 2y ago
  Lua, I would say. Far easier to get it everywhere, and a very nice language, also.
  • josephg 2y ago
    Lua is nice, but it’s a bit of a weird comparison for Swift. Swift is compiled and lua is interpreted. Swift is statically typed. Swift uses ref counting to Lua’s runtime GC. And Swift has non nullable types by default, classes, enums, ADTs, match expressions and so on. Lua is nice. But it’s chalk and cheese comparing the languages. I can’t think of many cases where you’re trying to decide between lua and Swift.
    • boffinAudio 2y ago
      In this case, the question is whether to use Swift for a backend server on a Linux machine, or something else. That's the environment. I'd prefer Lua, simply because its a very proven language for that application. Sure, Swift has sexy features that make it appealing to developers. But the ecosystem for server infrastructure on Lua is formidable.
• Tainnor 2y ago
  Kotlin
  • sureglymop 2y ago
    I agree. Honestly a really nice and productive language.