Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust

Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by tspiteri on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @06:59PM (#14757412)

I've never seen Python or Lua community do that so far.

Back then, wasn't it readable Python versus unreadable Perl?

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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by moomin on Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:03AM (#14759807)

You have a point. Python was definitely pitched as a perl replacement. We forget because it pretty much won.

Lua has it's own problems, of course, but I don't see it as a language developed as a consequence of frustrations with another.

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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by kibwen on Thursday July 13, 2017 @04:07PM (#14764703)

Lua was developed for legal reasons: huge tariffs on foreign software meant that Brazilian companies often found it cheaper to develop custom toolchains, which is what gave us Lua.

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