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Lua is C in Lisp's clothing. Lisp killer features were GC, good data representation, first class functions. Lua has all that and more. But its being a "thin" l
by xonre 1y ago
Lua is C in Lisp's clothing.
Lisp killer features were GC, good data representation, first class functions. Lua has all that and more. But its being a "thin" library over the C runtime shows through the clothes.
- flavio81 1y ago>Lisp killer features were GC, good data representation, first class functions. Lisp's killer feature is procedural macros that are extremely easy to write and debug. Lua doesn't have such a thing, that's why Fennel was created. Erlang also doesn't have such a thing, that's why LFE was created.