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As a speaker about Lua, this is awesome news. Yet, it also feels kinda pointless, most Lua use right now is in embedded interpreters in other software, and Ter
by speeder 14y ago
As a speaker about Lua, this is awesome news.
Yet, it also feels kinda pointless, most Lua use right now is in embedded interpreters in other software, and Terra would be hard to use, since most projects probably won't incorporate it at all.
- snaky 13y agoThat's changing rapidly, especially after LuaJIT and ngx_lua gained some publcity.
- marshray 14y agoIsn't that true of every new language project though?
- speeder 13y agoMore or less. When it is a new language, you fight for space into another languages turf, your "potential" is illimited, if your language is better, it will win. This language is obviously made to use with Lua and C at the same time, kind of a bridge of sorts, and thus it has much more limited scope and utility, and many of the uses of Lua even if they might need Terra performance, they cannot shoehorn Terra on their interpreter. For example for coders of Corona SDK, or WoW, or many other game engines and application SDKs out there that rely on Lua.