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- Subject: RE: Interest in Lua Web Plug-in?
- From: therandthem <therandthem@...>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:24:35 -0800 (PST)
Part of the reason is the sad benchmarks coming from
the new Tamarin Javascript implementation. Sure, they
are faster than Rhino (Javascript in Java) or
Spidermonkey (used by Firefox), but it is so slow
compared to Lua and LuaJIT. Tamarin is the future of
Flash and Firefox. It is the next 10 years.
It is not so much out of love for Lua, but a desire to
take a shortcut to where we really ought to be. Lua
is the fastest dynamically typed language
implementation. Why not use it? Why fool around with
slower?
I understand your feelings about these types of
projects. I don't think this has to be too
complicated though. Lua + media libraries + a little
sandboxing. Have you seen the HTML Canvas API?
That's as far as I think we would go in interfacing
with these media libraries. Nothing too high level.
Thanks,
McKinley
--- Vijay Aswadhati <wyseman@pacbell.net> wrote:
> I understand doing things for the love of Lua; it
> still begs the question why?
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