Re:Lua Criticism Is Unwarranted
by Joker_vD on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:40AM
(#38025367)
> Is it so difficult to create an object by just setting some attribs and tagging the table with a name?
Is it so difficult to create a struct by just memcpy-ing some data into a malloc-ed buffer and not even putting a tag anywhere? No, it is not. Neither is reading the fields back by using the pre-computed offsets. But people for some reason dislike writing such easy code by hand.
Re:Lua Criticism Is Unwarranted
by caligian on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:37PM
(#38033723)
Using a table is still simpler because people literally use dicts everywhere without actually thinking of them as containers but only as 'lookup containers'
Is it so difficult to create a struct by just memcpy-ing some data into a malloc-ed buffer and not even putting a tag anywhere? No, it is not. Neither is reading the fields back by using the pre-computed offsets. But people for some reason dislike writing such easy code by hand.