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> Interesting work! Thanks! > is there a way for users to report/flag bad suggestions? For the word hints there isn't a way yet, but this is a great point, I should add it in the f…

There is also another side to that question. If you were a pizza maker and you loved what you did, would you sell your pizza to someone who wishes you and your loved ones die? Mayb…

Oh, I understand your question now. From an European perspective, there is hardly any reason to hold our governments standards as having the moral grounds to establish what's the m…

Sure, 'should the tax rate be 25%' seems like an unimportant discussion for companies to debate internally. Do you think all political questions carry similar weights of debate imp…

Lua was made specially for non programmers. I think it is really intuitive and easy. I agree with the comment that perhaps understanding optmisation details is hard. But that's har…

The talk was great! I'm incredibly impressed with the benchmarks. Here is a quick link to Pallene's github repo as well, since it's a bit hidden in the paper: https://github.com/pa…

"I took a sabbatical". If the company has a problem with that they are not a good place to work anyway. Given that, looking for jobs sucks, a couple of rejections can easily make p…

There's an excellent book about the software community in peripheral areas that talks about Lua's development https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/coding-places

I don't like perl a lot exactly because it's easy to make it hard to read, but I gotta give that CPAN is the best language specific package manager I've ever encountered.

My thoughts exactly on the difference on underrated and underused. Lua is quite widespread in the industry in sneaky ways. It just doesn't get the love it deserves.

+1 to Lua, it is my favorite interpreted language. I like that the design is extremely clean and consistent, not to mention it is way faster than the alternatives.

I have used torch without issues but that was a while ago. It looks like Lua Torch was sort of deprecated in favor of PyTorch

It's not my job to convince you of anything. But while I agree with the lack of universal standard, PEP8 is great, I disagree with all the rest. The changes between Lua versions ar…

As a member of the Lua community I cry every time... But congrats on the hard work! I've been planning to try it out for a while now and the amount of resources and docs is great.

seems wonderful! just requested a membership :) I've been part of some online tech communities for women, but I found they were too US-centric and it was difficult for me to obtain…

Yea, I was hoping to see it there on the comparison list. I guess it fails some criteria.

I don't understand... This doesn't look like a programming language. It looks like a new VM for the Lua language, but with batteries included. There's a difference between "languag…

This is true, but the reason is just people already knowing python / python being more popular. Lua is a much simpler language than python or julia though, I'd absolutely still rec…

> If you compare LuaJIT with PyPy or Numba, the “much faster” argument will simply not be true Source? AFAIK it does hold true. Last time I benchmarked those, LuaJIT was significan…

Using the C api instead of the FFI is slower in LuaJIT than Lua and vice-versa. So there are still optimal solutions for each one.

> Do you think Roberto Ierusalimschy is confused about that ? No, of course not. I think you are. You are clearly misinterpreting his words. I will repeat, (PUC)Lua is not compiled…

Lua is not compiled to machine code. It compiles to an intermediate bytecode, which is then interpreted. So you could say it is a VM. Also bear in mind, LuaJIT is not Lua. It's a d…

> Are they likely to be expert in all those programming languages? No, but again, I take paper results very seriously. Misleading results are bad for science, period. Here is an ex…