> Lua is far superior
I disagree with this assessment.
LuaJIT is nearly 3x faster than V8 JavaScript the last time I checked. Just anecodal DDG search [0]. Maybe V8 has gotten faster since the last time I checked.
[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=is+luajit+faster+than+v8+ja...
I think a big part of the point is to build a js runtime for existing js code and libraries.
Probably it will not replace node soon, but it is a possible outcome.
Also didn't luajit had the problem that it would never move to more recent version of lua? I remember that some years ago there was some talking about this.
Re:Deno 1.0
by rosywoozlechan on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:34PM
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Lua also has a smaller footprint I think.
Re:Deno 1.0
by hombre_fatal on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:52PM
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It has a worse standard library than Javascript. And its static typing solutions don't compare to Typescript.
Funnily enough the state of art in typed lua is typescript: https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua
It depends what you mean by "superior". JavaScript (well v8) is far safer as a scripting runtime. And there are a ton of existing JS libs for solving problems. AND there's TypeScript, which is pretty great.
Re:Deno 1.0
by gameswithgo on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:30PM
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i suspect it is more that the whole world is familiar.
I disagree with this assessment. Lua is still far superior as an embed-able scripting language/runtime. I suspect the preference for JavaScript is mostly due to the Deno developers' familiarity and preference.