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by nikki93 8y ago
Yeah I think it does end up boiling down a lot to use cases because the big differences b/w Lua and JS are in availability of libs / integration and perf. In my case I do a lot of 2d graphics where love2d.org is available and perf
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by nikki93 8y ago
Lua doesn’t really run in browsers (except with emscripten or WASM? and also fengari (Lua interpreter written in JS with interop and GC sharing)) but for http luasocket / cqueues / openresty libs are good, and for servering also o
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by nikki93 8y ago
Equivalence is by whether that name refers to the same object (like “pointers” in C).
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by nikki93 8y ago
In my experience LuaJIT in interpreter only mode has better performance than using JSC (you can’t use JIT in JSC either — only WKWebViews can JIT). (edit: sorry this is regarding iOS)
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by nikki93 8y ago
Because `.foo` means `[‘foo’]` and because you can easily make sequences out of them (if you write `{ ... i1 = v1, v2, ... }` then `v2` automatically gets the “next” natural number as a key) the ergonomics make them usable as structures and
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by nikki93 8y ago
http://www.tylerlhobbs.com <— some really good generative pieces on here
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by nikki93 8y ago
Sad. :/ I’m about to get an X1 Carbon or T480s and trying to decide if 1440p... On the one hand, really digging the idea of hidpi fonts in terminals and web; on the other hand this Linux support madness... I think the main thing to pon
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by nikki93 8y ago
I think what you’re looking for is that languages are more language when they are interpreted by something that looks more like a VM, and interpreters are more VMy when they have constructs that look like “if” and “load from memory” (lettin
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by nikki93 8y ago
I think it can add to behaving with them well because we can use the tools of empathy, which is natural for us, to decide how to work with things we deem capable of empathy (often to some extent by anthropomorphising). This is why we create
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by nikki93 8y ago
I’ve managed to do this with direct access to the JSC C API — you could probably write an interop w/ Obj-C / JNI.
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by nikki93 8y ago
What's MoSCoW? Wasn't able to find anything in this domain named that from a couple simple Google searches...
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by nikki93 9y ago
It’s written in Lua.
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by nikki93 9y ago
`React.createElement(...)` is p. nice with a table-y DSL: https://github.com/nikki93/fengari-react-test/blob/9735deb78...
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by nikki93 9y ago
I’m interested in this and may have thoughts / want to hear what you have to say.
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by nikki93 9y ago
For widgets it's not just calling to iOS that matters, but being able to render the widgets as part of the painting process, which Fluter does as a completely separate process from how iOS renders. So to integrate it, you'd need s
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by nikki93 9y ago
The point is that a Dart library can write a parser for XML, but if XML was the only supported format, it's hard to go in the other direction. Also if you read example Flutter code, you may notice that their UI spec DSL-like is 'd
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by nikki93 9y ago
Dart compiles to machine code plus the rendering is mostly impl’d in Dart so you can change basic things about the rendering in Dart, FWIW. In general the dichotomy you’re painting b/w scripting and native languages can hold, but the d
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by nikki93 9y ago
How do you think code that parses XML makes the UI elements?
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by nikki93 9y ago
Well, all information transfer involves indirection by name, so what you’re getting at is that this lies on a spectrum where the words use are “heavy” and involve lookups where the definitions aren’t in the reader’s cache already? I’m point
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by nikki93 9y ago
Was sort of hacking on a similar project w/ JavaScript / React Native as the UI system: https://youtu.be/9mrBH_a0eIs Have had less time to hack on it lately tho!
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by nikki93 9y ago
Aren’t names always referential, in the sense of refering to a meaning or in the abstract, some memory or experience, or even future experiences, that an interpreter has/is/will have? So is the issue you point out that the names a
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by nikki93 9y ago
There are interesting things here to think about, and I think in practice a lot of discussions folks have in building software is philosophical. Another approach: What is/are the type(s) of argument that would convince you that somethi
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by nikki93 9y ago
This is for React Native (which lets you make mobile apps), not for web, technically, but you can try learning React with https://snack.expo.io/ which is 'batteries included' and lets you write the code in the bro
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by nikki93 9y ago
It’s interesting how we use individual-inspired predicates when refering to the complex identity “Google” in this thread — “Google wants ...” “Google should ...” —- would Google get mad at you and stop talking to you when you do something b
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by nikki93 9y ago
no because what you’ve learned by trying, you can tell other people. causality is complex, and it’s path-dependent not event-dependent.
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by nikki93 9y ago
Actually digging into lively.vm + lively.modules now, will try.
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by nikki93 9y ago
Does lively's implementation depend a lot on web APIs or is it quite pure JSy?
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by nikki93 9y ago
Here's a video for you :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mrBH_a0eIs A (very super duper early and hoping to be) Smalltalk-like env for a JS runtime for touch interfaces (currently React Native + Expo) -- already has
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by nikki93 9y ago
What were such envs for JS?
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by nikki93 9y ago
You can feed the output of a shader back into a shader, even itself, to have it feed into itself over time, but yes.

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