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Re:The cost of forsaking C by StavrosK on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:00PM (#12645630)
The problem there is that usually you're constrained to 2 kb of RAM or so for an Arduino, so that's too heavyweight :/ Plus, it's outside my abilities currently, sadly.
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Re:The cost of forsaking C by krylon on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @03:16PM (#12646860)
> Plus, it's outside my abilities currently, sadly.

If your target only has two KB of RAM, Lua is a no-go, I guess. But skill-wise, I can highly recommend it. The reference manual is very well-written, the Lua language itself is very nice and easy to learn, and Lua's C interface is very pleasant to use; and again: the documentation is very good. (Also, the community is very friendly!)

If you ever take a shot at it, the Lua Users Wiki (http://lua-users.org/wiki/) is a good starting point.

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Re:The cost of forsaking C by StavrosK on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:45PM (#12648611)
Hmm, the example you posted doesn't actually look very complicated at all! And I agree, Lua is a very nice language, I've used it for other projects.
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