Re: From Lua to Python?

[Italo Maia <italo.maia@...>]

I use python in my daily work. Considered using lua for our scripts, but, even it being faster and lighter, the few libraries and resources online available kind of made me rethink that.

For now, I think lua should be used for what it does best.

Em 30 de jun de 2017 8:09 PM, "Dibyendu Majumdar" <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> escreveu:

Hi,

I am thinking about moving to Python in my project where I am
currently using Lua as the scripting language. My reason is a
pragmatic one - Python is becoming popular in the Financial sector,
and is the language most people my project targets will be familiar
with. Additionally some of the tools I use - such as Google's GRPC and
Protocol Buffers - all support Python.

It seems that Python is also becoming popular in the field of machine
learning / statistics. I think that the Torch project may also be
moving to Python?

We all know that Lua (especially LuaJIT) is much faster than Python,
but as I realized a few months ago
(http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2017-02/msg00253.html) - speed is
not necessarily the driving factor in many applications of a scripting
language. There have been many threads here on what might need to be
done for Lua to make it more widely used - so I won't go into that.
Lua has its own niche in games etc. and hopefully it will continue to
thrive there.

I still hope to continue using Lua where I can - and continue working on Ravi.

Regards
Dibyendu