On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 01:35:39 -0300 "Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> > I wouldn't say lua isn't widespread, it's used in quite a few things > > including interface customization in World of Warcraft where it provides the > > power to do some pretty advanced user interfaces. > > Yes, it's not a small niche as Embryo, but know many people customizes > WoW? I know other games uses it as well, but now you compare all of > them together with number of web developers out there, it's so small > you can't even have a comparison. dude! lua is a brazilian invention! aren't you guys patriotic enough to back your own language! :) hehheheheheheh seriously - look at where lua is ised - WoW, adobe photoshop (lightroom), sim city 4, crysis, farcry, homeworld 2... i think actually its heavy use in the game world says something about lua to me. the game authors are much more concerned about speed and efficiency than your average "web designer". sure - js may be a bit more accessible, but ... let's be realistic.. this is efl - e. they have had to learn edc and get to grips with a whole new api within a language... they are definitely the people willing to learn a little more.. :) but as such - lua seems to be perfect. it's a small library, well supported, license is good, it's targetted at generally being embedded and sandboxed heavily, and being small and fast. it's definitely got a lot of the checkboxes filled... that's for sure. personally i'd rather take the high road and take the best technical solution over one for political/publicity image purposes. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
