Source code for Lua 5.3

Re:Source code for Lua 5.3 by jessegreathouse on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @09:53AM (#11438751)

A language that gets widespread usage in projects other than academic.

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Re:Source code for Lua 5.3 by sspiff on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:02AM (#11438819)

Another definition I could see working: a language that is used in projects bigger/more complicated that its own compiler or standard library.

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Re:Source code for Lua 5.3 by Narann on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:29AM (#11438957)

Hahaha! You got me!

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Re:Source code for Lua 5.3 by DonHopkins on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:48AM (#11439550)

Lua is widely used and well respected in the game industry (WOW for example [1]), for its efficiency and embeddability.

[1] http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Lua

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Re:Source code for Lua 5.3 by mrdrozdov on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:33AM (#11439428)

What's an example of a "not real language" then? I'm feeling a little hard pressed to find an academic language that is not used in industry. I always thought of Lua as academic because I associated it with Torch, but Facebook and Google are both heavy users of Torch, besides Lua has been heavily used in gaming as an embedded scripting language outside of machine learning applications.

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Re:Source code for Lua 5.3 by cyphar on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:45PM (#11444311)

Neovim is also working on replacing VimL with Lua (by translating VimL to Lua). I think that'll be pretty cool (you will be able to match the emacs people on having all of your configuration in a full programming language).

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Re:Source code for Lua 5.3 by llull on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:38AM (#11439473)

Idris. Really interesting language exploring dependent types for practical programming, but not yet production ready.

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