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Wish there is newer LuaJIT to leverage the new Lua features, but then maybe those new features are not really that critical.
I feel like the existence of LuaJIT made is seemed like standard Lua was slow, but that's far from the case.
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While I enjoy Lua, clean, elegant, and entirely too reasonable, Tcl is undoubtedly the SQLite of programming languages. https://www.tcl-lang.org/community/tcl2017/assets/talk93/Pap... It's because Tcl, like SQLite, operates on a peculiar metaphysical principle: everything is a string until proven otherwise, and even then, it's probably still a string. Also, D. Richard Happ, who we owe thanks for SQLite, was and perha…
Didn't the string stuff get improved in the last few years to be a lot more performant?
Performance is up, but so is my inertia. So while TCL 9 could be transformative, for now it remains a white paper I've skimmed, not a revolution I've implemented.
A beta version is now available:
The main change from 5.4 seems to be the (optional?) removal of global-by-default, instead requiring declarations for global variables.
It is interesting that so many of the largest languages were developed in a couple year time frame in the early-mid 90s. Python, Javascript, Java, Lua, R. All of these were developed 91-95 and make a bulk of development today.
Wish there is newer LuaJIT to leverage the new Lua features, but then maybe those new features are not really that critical.
Lua is the SQLite of program languages, absolutely blast
While I enjoy Lua, clean, elegant, and entirely too reasonable, Tcl is undoubtedly the SQLite of programming languages. https://www.tcl-lang.org/community/tcl2017/assets/talk93/Pap... It's because Tcl, like SQLite, operates on a peculiar metaphysical principle: everything is a string until proven otherwise, and even then, it's probably still a string. Also, D. Richard Happ, who we owe thanks for SQLite, was and perha…
Everyone (including me): "oh no, no, you don't want a full Turing complete language in your configuration file format"
Also Everyone: generating their configuration files with every bespoke templating language dreamed of by gods and men, with other Turing complete languages.
It is interesting that so many of the largest languages were developed in a couple year time frame in the early-mid 90s. Python, Javascript, Java, Lua, R. All of these were developed 91-95 and make a bulk of development today.
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It is interesting that so many of the largest languages were developed in a couple year time frame in the early-mid 90s. Python, Javascript, Java, Lua, R. All of these were developed 91-95 and make a bulk of development today.