Re: LUA Vs Javascript

[Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>]

Stephen Kellett wrote:
> Some of you will thing this is a minor issue. If you want Lua to be 
> mainstream, things like this need to be addressed.

Since when has "mainstream" been the measure of success for Lua?

I see this on the Ruby mailing list a lot: somebody comes along and
pronounces that unless Ruby jumps over *this* bar it'll never succeed,
for whatever their definition of "success" is. Then Ruby jumps over that
bar, so next week they proclaim yet another bar. Yet Ruby has gone from
obscurity to fame in the 6 or 7 years I've been using it without ever
once purposefully jumping over any bars except the ones that Matz raises.

IMHO, Lua is where Ruby was in 2001, just before Rails hit the world. Is
there a "killer app" for Lua? Maybe. Maybe not. As far as I'm concerned
 Lua is already a success - on it's own terms, not yours.