Re:Lua 5.4.0 beta
by yanex on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:48PM
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It seems that quite a lot of people use Lua.
I liked the language, it's tiny and well-made. However, I wasn't happy about the tooling support. IDE plugins, documentation generators, lint checkers – all of this seem abandoned.
Is there any similar language (embeddable, good C interoperability) with better tooling besides JavaScript?
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If you want Lua under the hood, but a more industrial-strength language on top, you might have a look at Haxe. It can compile to Lua (among other languages/platforms).
[Nim][1] seems to be a potential option.
The language looks really nice. I especially like its strong-typing nature. It seems, though, that it won't be easy to embed – Nim compiler requires either gcc or clang.
QuickJS is a Lua-like JS interpreter if you’re ok with JS.
Well, I'm not a big fan of JavaScript :) I like the direction ECMAScript is going. However, the clumsy things are going to stay because of backward compatibility.
Also, QuickJS is a good initiative, but I afraid it's not production-ready yet. It doesn't even have versioning and/or changelog.
The top of https://bellard.org/quickjs/ is the changelog and each release is versioned by date.
Nobody's a fan of the quirks of JS, but you can almost entirely ignore them and only use the good parts.