Re:Why I chose Lua for this blog
by vardump on Thursday October 02, 2025 @03:08PM
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Perhaps people's tastes vary? I find Lua an easy to use language. Easy to embed into C/C++ projects for scripting purposes. Also great when you can only spare 100 kB or so for an interpreter. (Arguably that was more important in the past.)
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For me it is a much easier language than, say, Erlang.
Re:Why I chose Lua for this blog
by dev_l1x_be on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:50PM
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Erlang has multiple higher level barrier of entries than other languages. For starting, its syntax.
but Erlang isn't a scripting language, it's a full-blown language with a rich ecosystem and framework (BEAM).
Lua is also a full blown language, with an ecosystem as well.
Perhaps the road block that you've run into is because you've been treating it as just a scripting language.
Re:Why I chose Lua for this blog
by SoftTalker on Friday October 03, 2025 @12:14AM
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Again, tastes. I found Erlang to be one of the easiest languages I ever used. I just immediately "got" it. Unfortunately I've had very few professional opportunities to use it.