Re:Minimalism in programming language design
by lifthrasiir on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @06:56AM
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> I never got the sense that [Lua] could scale much beyond one-person projects.
I had a misfortune to deal with more than 200K lines of Lua code back in time [1]. It seems that my experience doesn't necessarily match those of other big Lua users though; it does seem to work when everyone is willing to invest in self-contained environments. In the other words successful Lua users doesn't exactly use Lua, they use their own programming systems based on Lua. (I should note that such systems are not guaranteed to be successful, as evident from my case.)
I had a misfortune to deal with more than 200K lines of Lua code back in time [1]. It seems that my experience doesn't necessarily match those of other big Lua users though; it does seem to work when everyone is willing to invest in self-contained environments. In the other words successful Lua users doesn't exactly use Lua, they use their own programming systems based on Lua. (I should note that such systems are not guaranteed to be successful, as evident from my case.)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18351788