Re: Is "scripting" truly Lua's future?

[Petite Abeille <petite_abeille@...>]

On Sep 12, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Matt Campbell wrote:

> If I'm designing a new application, should I write the application  
> core in C and then use Lua for scripting on top of that, or should I  
> write the application in Lua, using C extension modules only where  
> needed?

For what it's worth, as a hobby, I use Lua to write applications, only  
using extension modules when there are no other alternatives.

After all, one can get quite a bit of mileage out of just bare bone  
Lua :)

As a concrete example of an arguably full fledge application, Nanoki,  
a wiki server, is fully implemented in Lua, using only a handful of  
low level C modules:

http://svr225.stepx.com:3388/a

Just my 2¢.

Cheers,

--
PA.
http://alt.textdrive.com/nanoki/