Re: Lua - C++ Bindings

[Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Daniel Wallin wrote:
> Jose Luis Hidalgo wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >   I just want to add yet another one:
> >
> > SLB: Simple Lua Binder (http://slb.pplux.com)  http://svn.pplux.com/SLB
> >    * templatized, similar to LuaBind but without Boost ( it is just
> > standard C++ )
>
> So is luabind. It's all standard C++, using some of the Boost libraries.
> I normally don't care about things like this, but I'm curious: What made
> you decide to reinvent the wheel, not just once but twice, by
> reimplementing (at least in parts) luabind and then not even use Boost?

I, for one, welcome very much the fact that SLB avoids Boost.
> From my limited experience working with Boost, it is huge, has tons 
of interdependencies and in many cases its power is not really needed.
C++ is already heavily over-engineered language, 
Boost libraries make it even worse.

This is just a private opinion of someone who professionally
developes numerical software in C++ for the last 15 years.
I hope this message would not start a flame war:-)

--Leo--