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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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