From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2007-05-17T18:30:07+09:00
Subject: Re: thread-safe ANSI-C ruby needed to replace lua

On 2007-05-15, jeff_alexander_44@yahoo.com
<jeff_alexander_44@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The only reasons for using lua are sheer technical ones: ... What is
> absolutely needed in the game software industry is a better lua.

I'm surprised to hear this, can you say more?  I looked at Lua
recently and I was very impressed: a clean, simple language, proper
lexical closure and garbage collection, and the metatables feature is
very powerful.  What's wrong with Lua that the game software industry
needs something better?

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty