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Re:Colony, an experimental JavaScript-to-Lua compiler by finnw on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @05:47PM (#3160585)
But if they are developers why would they not want to modify their own C code (to add an embeddable JS interpreter?)
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Re:Colony, an experimental JavaScript-to-Lua compiler by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @08:46PM (#3161123)
js interpreters are not as friendly as lua for embedding.
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Re:Colony, an experimental JavaScript-to-Lua compiler by zhemao on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @10:40PM (#3161394)
Exactly, I've worked with the Lua C API before, it was fairly easy to use. I've looked at the V8 API before. Compared to Lua, it is far more complicated.
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