From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2006-08-17T21:00:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Lightweight Ruby?

I briefly looked at Lua but didn't get a chance to fully research its
capabilities. Are there a decent amount of libraries available for this
language? For example, could I implement XMLRPC, SOAP, etc. with it or
use standard GUI toolkits such as Qt, GTK, Fox, Wx, etc.?

Bira wrote:
> On 8/16/06, Brian McCallister <brianm@apache.org> wrote:
> > Lua embeds much easier than Ruby, IMHO. This is especially if you use
> > multiple threads (which most games do, I believe).
> >
> > Best tool for the job isn't always your favorite tool :-)
> >
> > -Brian
>
> Lua is also a nifty language :). Lua and Ruby seem to have the same
> goals of being simple and fun to program in. Lua isn't
> object-oriented, but you can implement OOP in it and do a whole lot of
> other nifty tricks using its peculiar data types.
>
>
> --
> Bira
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