Comment by vardump

Comment by vardump 17 hours ago

Perhaps people's tastes vary? I find Lua an easy to use language. Easy to embed into C/C++ projects for scripting purposes. Also great when you can only spare 100 kB or so for an interpreter. (Arguably that was more important in the past.)

fullstop 17 hours ago

For me it is a much easier language than, say, Erlang.

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SoftTalker 8 hours ago

Again, tastes. I found Erlang to be one of the easiest languages I ever used. I just immediately "got" it. Unfortunately I've had very few professional opportunities to use it.

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dev_l1x_be 15 hours ago

Erlang has multiple higher level barrier of entries than other languages. For starting, its syntax.

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behnamoh 14 hours ago

but Erlang isn't a scripting language, it's a full-blown language with a rich ecosystem and framework (BEAM).

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- fullstop 14 hours ago
  
  Lua is also a full blown language, with an ecosystem as well.
  Perhaps the road block that you've run into is because you've been treating it as just a scripting language.
  
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