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This is a good initiative because LuaJIT development has been mostly halted since May 2014, when the following note was added to the LuaJIT Open Sponsorships pa

by pierrec 11y ago

This is a good initiative because LuaJIT development has been mostly halted since May 2014, when the following note was added to the LuaJIT Open Sponsorships page: "The main LuaJIT author (Mike Pall) is working on unrelated projects and cannot accept new sponsorships at this time..." [1] Since then, Mike has only made bugfix commits to the project. I really hope that the features mentioned on that Open Sponsorships page start happening after these news, and CloudFlare seems like a good candidate to me: even without knowing how much resources they're ready to offer, I'm willing to bet it will be an improvement over the current situation. Everyone was surprised when LuaJIT seized the position of "fastest scripting language in the west", and it would be awesome if they could manage to keep that status - or has it been taken over by Javascript already? JS implementations have been improving dramatically thanks to the competition between browsers, and V8/SpiderMonkey are implementing features from LuaJIT's TODO list right now (I'm thinking about vectorized SIMD instructions). A lot of people use benchmarks as a major factor for choosing a scripting language, and I'd rather see more projects using Lua/LuaJIT rather than JS as a scripting language. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Go LuaJIT! [1]: http://wiki.luajit.org/Open-Sponsorships http://wiki.luajit.org/Open-Sponsorships

meric 11y ago
"fastest scripting language in the west" Ironic - Since Lua's speed is most heavily used in Yahoo! China, Taobao, Alibaba and programmers hired by Cloudflare to work with Lua worked in those companies. (http://agentzh.org/#AboutMe http://agentzh.org/#AboutMe) The use of Lua - openresty with nginx - Nginx is from Russia, too. "fastest scripting language in the east" Might be slightly more appropriate. But then again - Lua originated from Brazil and heavily used in game companies in the U.S. Not sure how much they use LuaJIT though.
- mcpherrinm 11y ago
  This is a reference to the trope of quickdraw duels and "Fastest gun in the west" referring to the western United States in the "Wild West". Not an east/west of the world like you're thinking.

by pierrec 11y ago

meric 11y ago

"fastest scripting language in the west" Ironic - Since Lua's speed is most heavily used in Yahoo! China, Taobao, Alibaba and programmers hired by Cloudflare to work with Lua worked in those companies. (http://agentzh.org/#AboutMe http://agentzh.org/#AboutMe) The use of Lua - openresty with nginx - Nginx is from Russia, too. "fastest scripting language in the east" Might be slightly more appropriate. But then again - Lua originated from Brazil and heavily used in game companies in the U.S. Not sure how much they use LuaJIT though.

mcpherrinm 11y ago
This is a reference to the trope of quickdraw duels and "Fastest gun in the west" referring to the western United States in the "Wild West". Not an east/west of the world like you're thinking.