Is Lua comfy?
I started writing a C/ncurses spreadsheet program 2AM tonight and had something that kinda worked at 10AM. I decided to use Lua, without having any prior experience with it, for evaluating formulas and extending the program in general (think VBA) and while it has its warts it's pretty cute I think.
Anyway I haven't slept for about 40 hours so maybe I'm just confused. But yeah, it seems to work nicely. Probably wouldn't use it standalone though.
Lua is a meme
Scheme is a better extension language
>>54960570
>he fell for the 'x is a meme' meme
>>54960570
>falling for the Scheme meme
>array indices start at 1
>comfy
Choose one senpai
People's opinions on Lua seem to be very polarizing, they love it or hate it. I think it's great. I love the minimalistic, lightweight, no-frills aspect of it. It's one of the fastest dynamically typed languages, especially if you use LuaJIT. There are some minor complaints I have about the syntax but they are easy to overlook. It also has some unconventional approaches to some things, e.g. undefined behavior when using the (#) length operator in some cases
This guy says he studies programming languages for a living and says Lua is "superbly designed," "superbly engineered," and "greatly refined", giving several details he finds interesting/impressive.
Worth a read if you're looking into Lua.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100902/is-lua-based-primarily-on-well-established-programming-language-ideas
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>>54959874
Yes it is! Luajit is brilliant.
>>54960635
>Not calling it "Schmeme"
>>54960570
shut the fuck up
