Re: TechRepublic article about languages to avoid in 2018
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- Subject: Re: TechRepublic article about languages to avoid in 2018
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:35:15 -0300
> On 7 March 2018 at 15:23, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
> > Not only that, people write code that assumes it runs on LuaJIT and
> > uses the FFI anyway...
>
> hey, the FFI is the nicest thing of LuaJIT! in fact, it happens to me
> a lot that i start a project in a somewhat modern Lua, and then
> appears something that would some C... at that point I have to
> consider: is this a "serious thing, where i do care about the users?"
> then I use the Lua C API. if it's a quick and dirty thing, then i
> switch to LuaJIT and use the FFI. (no, i don't consider luaffi)
luaffi is not a serious option, and cannot be; the whole philosophy of
FFI demands a compiler. FFI is what made LuaJIT definitively a fork of
Lua.
-- Roberto