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Yes, Lua is quite easy to embed and is popular in game development for that reason. It appears in a few other applications like Redis as well. But, in the big
by throwaway81523 2y ago
Yes, Lua is quite easy to embed and is popular in game development for that reason. It appears in a few other applications like Redis as well. But, in the big picture, it's a weird language that is not very popular. People want Python and/or Javascript, and JS is awful, so that leaves Python ;).
- f1shy 2y agoI do bot understand the downvotes. Maybe because of wording “weird”. Give me a break, I think it has a point: much more people can do Python as Lua. I do like Lua, but if I just try to use it in my work, I would be paria.
- throwaway81523 2y agoI had figured people didn't like the dig at JS. Unfortunately the WAT video is no longer on youtube. It might be on destroyallsoftware.com.