On: Why nobody talks about Lua

[punster]

I started using Lua as an embedded scripting language to drive a pretty complicated process. After a few weeks, i ended up switching to Python. The Lua libraries were pretty weak, the datastructures and builtin functions were wierd and inconsistent, and swig+python made for much faster scripting then exposing c interfaces to lua.

[agladysh → punster]

Lua data structures and builtin functions are ones of the most consistent sort I've seen around — if you get the whole picture.

They are just a bit unorthodoxal.

[punster → punster]

Oh, and the lack of an integer type seemed to make it really difficult to do proper bit shifting--i'd expect this to be the bread and butter of an embedded scripting language.

[pheon → punster]

you apply the bit operator patch to get this.

[agladysh → pheon]

You do not apply bit operator patch, you do use bitop library.

[gnosis → punster]

You can use SWIG with Lua.