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One of the interesting things about Lua is because they don't really maintain compatibility between major versions, there isn't a huge ecosystem, and as a resul
by camgunz 4mo ago
One of the interesting things about Lua is because they don't really maintain compatibility between major versions, there isn't a huge ecosystem, and as a result there's less friction against making your own, slightly incompatible version. When you add on the simplicity of implementing the language, it's created a really diverse set of lua-alikes. Weird (and cool) for a language to have a diverse ecosystem of implementations, but not necessarily libraries.
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoFragmentation is terrible for a language. Just look at Scheme. Nobody actually uses Scheme itself, it's always some Scheme implementation like Racket, Guile, Chicken, Chez, etc. Languages should probably protect themselves with trademarks or something.
- camgunz 4mo agoI don't know, Lua is way more successful than Ruby, Dart, Swift, Perl, Kotlin, etc. Something is going right (it's very good for scripting engines).