Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.6.0

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

Stefan Sandberg wrote:
> Don't take this the wrong way or anything, but what's the upside of 
> that? :)

I guess it serves 2 purposes:

1) Show off what Parrot can do. Such as - "it works", which seems to be 
 a step forward from where they were. They seem to have a variety of 
different language implementations on top of Parrot.

2) Assuming that Parrot can be a sandbox it *MAY* be a safer environment 
for running unknown applications in than Lua. For some 
people/applications that may be a good thing.

I can't find any info on the Parrot website to conclude that (2) is a 
valid assumption or not. I don't find the documentation on that website 
very easy to use.

I, like you, doubt it will be as fast as Lua.

Stephen