| Author: | Kyle Cordes |
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- Talk about the Why, not the How.
- Build in a sandbox
- Safe by default
- No IO (without being allowed)
- Host applications can limit access
- Small
- As small as < 100 Kb
- Easy on small devices or apps.
- Example: Lua on the iPhone
- Simple
- To use
- To learn, ~20 keywords & ~20 operators
- To teach
- Flexible
- Dynamically typed
- First class functions
- Easy interop
- Written in super-clean C
- Ample libraries off the shelf
- Fast
- LuaJIT almost as fast as C & Java.
- Faster than Scala/Haskell/etc.
- Momentum
- WoW, Garry's Mod, Angry Birds, etc.
- Large game community
- 110 games with Lua scripting
- Lightroom, etc.
- Is Lua the answer to everything?
- No but very worth considering.