Re: Is Lua stable? (Was: Strange Operators (Was: Why I leave Lua (Was: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available)))

[Michael Richter <ttmrichter@...>]

On 11 July 2014 12:48, Aaron Faanes <dafrito@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Michael Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11 July 2014 12:32, Aaron Faanes <dafrito@gmail.com> wrote:

Lua's biggest downside is …

The lack of public access to real-time development is a significant impediment to public involvement. 

It's amazing how perspectives can differ.  To me this is a selling point.

To each their own. ;) I mean, I'm not for a free-for-all commit access or anything, but they could at least publish their git/svn/whatever-they-use repo and give us an opportunity to see how things are progressing. It would also give others an opportunity to patch against the latest development release (which I imagine is much more useful for upstream than patching against a maintained release, which to them is old code).

I'm just not a believer in the cult of social coding.  If there were a history of Lua's developers making universally bone-headed design decisions I might be more open to the notion of social coding correcting this.  (Although, to be honest, I'd be even more open to just moving languages.)  What I typically see in social coding situations is a bunch of mediocre programmer primates screeching and throwing dung at people who know better.

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