Re: Why nobody talks about Lua

[dcharno <dcharno@...>]

Alex Combas wrote:
> I agree with you that lots of people use Lua, but I disagree that many 
> people talk about it.
>
> I know it is silly to compare, but if we look at reddit.com 
> <http://reddit.com> as just 1 example.
>
> www.reddit.com/r/python <http://www.reddit.com/r/python> 
> has 11,424 readers, after 2 years
>
> www.reddit.com/r/ruby <http://www.reddit.com/r/ruby> has 4,350 readers, 
> after 2 years
>
> www.reddit.com/r/javascript <http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript> 
> has 5,423 readers, after 2 years
>
> www.reddit.com/r/lua <http://www.reddit.com/r/lua> has 263 readers, 
> after 1 year

Well, Io has 78 readers and Tcl has 150.  Lua is doing better than that. 
  I suspect most people who are interested in Lua follow the mailing 
list. I follow reddit/r/lua, but I rarely see anything I haven't already 
read here.

Maybe this is just an unrealistic metric to judge the success of Lua. 
It just does what it was designed to do well.