Re:Sandcat Browser – Chromium and Lua
by otikik on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:39AM
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I used to think like you.
I like Lua a lot, but javascript has a burden which Lua doesn't: backwards compatibility. Pages built 20 years ago must work on today's browsers. That is a huge commitment and is part of the reason javascript still has some of its bad parts. It can add new stuff, but deprecations are more difficult.
Lua has had the luxury of reinventing and refining itself on every version. Stuff has been deprecated. And that's how it has become so good and streamlined. I would not want it chained to browsers and subjected to their backwards compatibility jinx.
I like Lua a lot, but javascript has a burden which Lua doesn't: backwards compatibility. Pages built 20 years ago must work on today's browsers. That is a huge commitment and is part of the reason javascript still has some of its bad parts. It can add new stuff, but deprecations are more difficult.
Lua has had the luxury of reinventing and refining itself on every version. Stuff has been deprecated. And that's how it has become so good and streamlined. I would not want it chained to browsers and subjected to their backwards compatibility jinx.