> Ask all the game people who use Lua big time.... See that's the problem. When we say "horses for courses" we have to actually dig down into what we're saying there. The reason Lua is used in the gaming community is that it's quite fast, very very small, and simple for what it does. It also has a fairly decent JIT (in the form of LuaJIT). But it's still an interpreted language, with a very basic set of data-structures (basically hash-maps for everything even arrays).
So yeah, the reason it's used in the gaming community is that integrating the interpreter is fairly easy, and it's "fast enough" to be used for game logic. But I seriously doubt anyone picked Lua because it had a world-class GC (because it doesn't), or because out-performed other languages. On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Horses for courses. Ask all the game people who use Lua big time. :-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
