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Lua's somewhat diasporic community gives it an unfortunately high barrier to entry. It might be helpful to post this in /r/lua or on lua-l; disclosure: I modera
by scythe 12y ago
Lua's somewhat diasporic community gives it an unfortunately high barrier to entry. It might be helpful to post this in /r/lua or on lua-l; disclosure: I moderate the former and it's pretty small.
- fit2rule 12y agoI've been a serious Lua coder for 4 years now, and I have to say that I agree with you about the diaspora factor - Lua users aren't loud, they just get on with using this extraordinarily powerful, small, tight tool. I feel like Lua-heads actively resist forming big community and loud forums, because - like so many other powerful tools - there is a covetous factor involved. ;) But when things as elegant as luvit/lujit-libuv hit the scene, its hard not to agree with those who have the temerity to proclaim Lua's immense usefulness to the masses .. Lua just plain kicks ass, its really all there is to it.
- mhd 12y agoLua pretty much has the same problem as Tcl. Two embedded scenarios don't share much with each other, and quite often you're not even allowed to use outside code -- or even share some of your own. OpenResty has been around for a while, but then again, it's not like Aolserver helped Tcl a lot in the end.