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Is it your assertion that Lua does not have momentum?

by joeyo 17y ago

swolchok 17y ago
Yes. Nobody I know or am in contact with through the Ann Arbor tech scene uses Lua.
- joeyo 17y ago
  Loathe as I am to engage in a programming language pissing-match, I think you will be surprised at how widely lua is embedded, perhaps even in products that you have used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29#Applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29#...
- javert 17y ago
  You should not evaluate the worth of something by the number of people that use it.
  - swolchok 17y ago
    Pithy and sounds good, but totally discounts network effects. Programming languages are subject to network effects -- users create libraries in the language, increasing the usefulness of the language. Of course, interoperation between languages is possible to some degree, but that doesn't detract from the core statement.
    - silentbicycle 17y ago
      It's really not hard to use C libraries from Lua, and its design for embedding / use as an off-the-shelf extension language has made interfacing easily with other languages a high priority. There are projects that supposedly allow interoperability with Python, Perl, and several other languages (http://lua-users.org/wiki/BindingCodeToLua http://lua-users.org/wiki/BindingCodeToLua), though I have only used the C API thus far. The core language is also small and simple enough that adding major language extensions, such as Erlang's concurrency model (http://concurrentlua.luaforge.net/ http://concurrentlua.luaforge.net/), is feasible.
      - swolchok 17y ago
        Many useful libraries are in languages other than C.
      - garnet7 17y ago
        > It's really not hard to use C libraries from Lua, ... My understanding is that it's actually very easy to use C libs from Lua.
        silentbicycle 17y ago
        You have to be comfortable with C, so that rules out some people.
- jerf 17y ago
  Now you do! Well, I don't use it, but I work in Ann Arbor, and a guy who sits about 30 feet from me uses it in his product.

Is it your assertion that Lua does not have momentum?

by joeyo 17y ago

Is it your assertion that Lua does not have momentum?

swolchok 17y ago

Yes. Nobody I know or am in contact with through the Ann Arbor tech scene uses Lua.

joeyo 17y ago
Loathe as I am to engage in a programming language pissing-match, I think you will be surprised at how widely lua is embedded, perhaps even in products that you have used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29#Applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29#...
javert 17y ago
You should not evaluate the worth of something by the number of people that use it.
- swolchok 17y ago
  Pithy and sounds good, but totally discounts network effects. Programming languages are subject to network effects -- users create libraries in the language, increasing the usefulness of the language. Of course, interoperation between languages is possible to some degree, but that doesn't detract from the core statement.
  - silentbicycle 17y ago
    It's really not hard to use C libraries from Lua, and its design for embedding / use as an off-the-shelf extension language has made interfacing easily with other languages a high priority. There are projects that supposedly allow interoperability with Python, Perl, and several other languages (http://lua-users.org/wiki/BindingCodeToLua http://lua-users.org/wiki/BindingCodeToLua), though I have only used the C API thus far. The core language is also small and simple enough that adding major language extensions, such as Erlang's concurrency model (http://concurrentlua.luaforge.net/ http://concurrentlua.luaforge.net/), is feasible.
    - swolchok 17y ago
      Many useful libraries are in languages other than C.
    - garnet7 17y ago
      > It's really not hard to use C libraries from Lua, ... My understanding is that it's actually very easy to use C libs from Lua.
      - silentbicycle 17y ago
        You have to be comfortable with C, so that rules out some people.
jerf 17y ago
Now you do! Well, I don't use it, but I work in Ann Arbor, and a guy who sits about 30 feet from me uses it in his product.