Re:Welcome to the Python Engineering blog
by to3m on Sunday February 21, 2016 @05:50PM
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6 is a very good point - Lua has advantages for embedding, but its API is not one of its better points.
Of course, when coding in C, your options are limited - Python's reference-counting isn't much fun either! But code using the Python API tends to be relatively readable, even though you run the risk of forgetting to put a decref in. Lua API code on the other hand, for all that it doesn't need anything like Python's incref/decref, has a tendency to be rather inscrutable.
Of course, when coding in C, your options are limited - Python's reference-counting isn't much fun either! But code using the Python API tends to be relatively readable, even though you run the risk of forgetting to put a decref in. Lua API code on the other hand, for all that it doesn't need anything like Python's incref/decref, has a tendency to be rather inscrutable.